Ultima Thule: The Iron Pen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC DDED FFGF HHIJ KKCK LLML NNO DPQD RRSR| I thought this Pen would arise | A |
| From the casket where it lies | A |
| Of itself would arise and write | B |
| My thanks and my surprise | A |
| - | |
| When you gave it me under the pines | C |
| I dreamed these gems from the mines | C |
| Of Siberia Ceylon and Maine | D |
| Would glimmer as thoughts in the lines | C |
| - | |
| That this iron link from the chain | D |
| Of Bonnivard might retain | D |
| Some verse of the Poet who sang | E |
| Of the prisoner and his pain | D |
| - | |
| That this wood from the frigate's mast | F |
| Might write me a rhyme at last | F |
| As it used to write on the sky | G |
| The song of the sea and the blast | F |
| - | |
| But motionless as I wait | H |
| Like a Bishop lying in state | H |
| Lies the Pen with its mitre of gold | I |
| And its jewels inviolate | J |
| - | |
| Then must I speak and say | K |
| That the light of that summer day | K |
| In the garden under the pines | C |
| Shall not fade and pass away | K |
| - | |
| I shall see you standing there | L |
| Caressed by the fragrant air | L |
| With the shadow on your face | M |
| And the sunshine on your hair | L |
| - | |
| I shall hear the sweet low tone | N |
| Of a voice before unknown | N |
| Saying 'This is from me to you | O |
| From me and to you alone ' | - |
| - | |
| And in words not idle and vain | D |
| I shall answer and thank you again | P |
| For the gift and the grace of the gift | Q |
| O beautiful Helen of Maine | D |
| - | |
| And forever this gift will be | R |
| As a blessing from you to me | R |
| As a drop of the dew of your youth | S |
| On the leaves of an aged tree | R |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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