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 JLJLLJL| O 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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