Voices Of The Night : The Beleaguered City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JHJH KEKE LMNM DODO FGFG HPHP MQMQ KEKEI have read in some old marvellous tale | A |
Some legend strange and vague | B |
That a midnight host of spectres pale | A |
Beleaguered the walls of Prague | C |
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Beside the Moldau's rushing stream | D |
With the wan moon overhead | E |
There stood as in an awful dream | D |
The army of the dead | E |
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White as a sea fog landward bound | F |
The spectral camp was seen | G |
And with a sorrowful deep sound | F |
The river flowed between | G |
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No other voice nor sound was there | H |
No drum nor sentry's pace | I |
The mist like banners clasped the air | H |
As clouds with clouds embrace | I |
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But when the old cathedral bell | J |
Proclaimed the morning prayer | H |
The white pavilions rose and fell | J |
On the alarmed air | H |
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Down the broad valley fast and far | K |
The troubled army fled | E |
Up rose the glorious morning star | K |
The ghastly host was dead | E |
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I have read in the marvellous heart of man | L |
That strange and mystic scroll | M |
That an army of phantoms vast and wan | N |
Beleaguer the human soul | M |
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Encamped beside Life's rushing stream | D |
In Fancy's misty light | O |
Gigantic shapes and shadows gleam | D |
Portentous through the night | O |
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Upon its midnight battle ground | F |
The spectral camp is seen | G |
And with a sorrowful deep sound | F |
Flows the River of Life between | G |
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No other voice nor sound is there | H |
In the army of the grave | P |
No other challenge breaks the air | H |
But the rushing of Life's wave | P |
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And when the solemn and deep churchbell | M |
Entreats the soul to pray | Q |
The midnight phantoms feel the spell | M |
The shadows sweep away | Q |
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Down the broad Vale of Tears afar | K |
The spectral camp is fled | E |
Faith shineth as a morning star | K |
Our ghastly fears are dead | E |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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