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 TitanicA
Of the congregated FallB
And the angle oceanicA
Where the deepening thunders callB
And the Gorge so grimC
And the firmamental rimC
Multitudinously throngingA
The waters all convergeD
Then they sweep adown in slopingA
Solidity of surgeD
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The Nation in her impulseE
Mysterious as the TideF
In emotion like an oceanG
Moves in power not in prideF
And is deep in her devotionG
As Humanity is wideF
-
Thou Lord of hosts victoriousH
The confluence Thou hast twinedI
By a wondrous way and gloriousH
A passage Thou dost findI
A passage Thou dost findI
Hosanna to the Lord of hostsJ
The hosts of human kindI
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Stable in its baselessnessJ
When calm is in the airK
The Iris half in tracelessnessJ
Hovers faintly fairK
Fitfully assailing itL
A wind from heaven blowsJ
Shivering and paling itL
To blankness of the snowsJ
While incessant in renewalM
The Arch rekindled growsJ
Till again the gem and jewelM
Whirl in blinding overthrowsJ
Till prevailing and transcendingA
Lo the Glory perfect thereK
And the contest finds an endingA
For repose is in the airK
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But the foamy Deep unsoundedL
And the dim and dizzy ledgeN
And the booming roar reboundedL
And the gull that skims the edgeN
The Giant of the PoolO
Heaves his forehead white as woolP
Toward the Iris every climbingA
From the Cataracts that callB
Irremovable vast arrasJ
Draping all the WallB
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The Generations pouringA
From times of endless dateL
In their going in their flowingA
Ever form the steadfast StateL
And Humanity is growingA
Toward the fullness of her fateL
-
Thou Lord of hosts victoriousJ
Fulfill the end designedL
By a wondrous way and gloriousJ
A passage Thou dost findL
A passage Thou dost findL
Hosanna to the Lord of hostsJ
The hosts of human kindL

Herman Melville



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