A Canticle: Significant Of The National Exaltation Of Enthusiasm At The Close Of The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCADAD EFGFGF HIHIIJI JKJKLJLJMJMJAKAK LNLNOPABJB ALALAL JLJLLJLO the precipice Titanic | A |
Of the congregated Fall | B |
And the angle oceanic | A |
Where the deepening thunders call | B |
And the Gorge so grim | C |
And the firmamental rim | C |
Multitudinously thronging | A |
The waters all converge | D |
Then they sweep adown in sloping | A |
Solidity of surge | D |
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The Nation in her impulse | E |
Mysterious as the Tide | F |
In emotion like an ocean | G |
Moves in power not in pride | F |
And is deep in her devotion | G |
As Humanity is wide | F |
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Thou Lord of hosts victorious | H |
The confluence Thou hast twined | I |
By a wondrous way and glorious | H |
A passage Thou dost find | I |
A passage Thou dost find | I |
Hosanna to the Lord of hosts | J |
The hosts of human kind | I |
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Stable in its baselessness | J |
When calm is in the air | K |
The Iris half in tracelessness | J |
Hovers faintly fair | K |
Fitfully assailing it | L |
A wind from heaven blows | J |
Shivering and paling it | L |
To blankness of the snows | J |
While incessant in renewal | M |
The Arch rekindled grows | J |
Till again the gem and jewel | M |
Whirl in blinding overthrows | J |
Till prevailing and transcending | A |
Lo the Glory perfect there | K |
And the contest finds an ending | A |
For repose is in the air | K |
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But the foamy Deep unsounded | L |
And the dim and dizzy ledge | N |
And the booming roar rebounded | L |
And the gull that skims the edge | N |
The Giant of the Pool | O |
Heaves his forehead white as wool | P |
Toward the Iris every climbing | A |
From the Cataracts that call | B |
Irremovable vast arras | J |
Draping all the Wall | B |
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The Generations pouring | A |
From times of endless date | L |
In their going in their flowing | A |
Ever form the steadfast State | L |
And Humanity is growing | A |
Toward the fullness of her fate | L |
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Thou Lord of hosts victorious | J |
Fulfill the end designed | L |
By a wondrous way and glorious | J |
A passage Thou dost find | L |
A passage Thou dost find | L |
Hosanna to the Lord of hosts | J |
The hosts of human kind | L |
Herman Melville
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