Apathy And Enthusiasm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEBGHIJBBIKLML NMN DOPOQRSRSTSTQURVDBWR XTA | |
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O the clammy cold November | B |
And the winter white and dead | C |
And the terror dumb with stupor | B |
And the sky a sheet of lead | C |
And events that came resounding | D |
With the cry that All was lost | E |
Like the thunder cracks of massy ice | F |
In intensity of frost | E |
Bursting one upon another | B |
Through the horror of the calm | G |
The paralysis of arm | H |
In the anguish of the heart | I |
And the hollowness and dearth | J |
The appealings of the mother | B |
To brother and to brother | B |
Not in hatred so to part | I |
And the fissure in the hearth | K |
Growing momently more wide | L |
Then the glances 'tween the Fates | M |
And the doubt on every side | L |
And the patience under gloom | N |
In the stoniness that waits | M |
The finality of doom | N |
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II | - |
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So the winter died despairing | D |
And the weary weeks of Lent | O |
And the ice bound rivers melted | P |
And the tomb of Faith was rent | O |
O the rising of the People | Q |
Came with springing of the grass | R |
They rebounded from dejection | S |
And Easter came to pass | R |
And the young were all elation | S |
Hearing Sumter's cannon roar | T |
And they thought how tame the Nation | S |
In the age that went before | T |
And Michael seemed gigantical | Q |
The Arch fiend but a dwarf | U |
And at the towers of Erebus | R |
Our striplings flung the scoff | V |
But the elders with foreboding | D |
Mourned the days forever o'er | B |
And re called the forest proverb | W |
The Iroquois' old saw | R |
Grief to every graybeard | X |
When young Indians lead the war | T |
Herman Melville
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