Epilogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEBBDDFDDFD DGDGDD HHIJFJ EDKDK DDDLMNMDNMFF| If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year | A |
| Shall that exclude the hope foreclose the fear | A |
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| Unmoved by all the claims our times avow | B |
| The ancient Sphinx still keeps the porch of | C |
| shade | D |
| And comes Despair whom not her calm may | E |
| cow | B |
| And coldly on that adamantine brow | B |
| Scrawls undeterred his bitter pasquinade | D |
| But Faith who from the scrawl indignant | D |
| turns | F |
| With blood warm oozing from her wounded | D |
| trust | D |
| Inscribes even on her shards of broken urns | F |
| The sign o' the cross the spirit above the dust | D |
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| Yea ape and angel strife and old debate | D |
| The harps of heaven and dreary gongs of hell | G |
| Science the feud can only aggravate | D |
| No umpire she betwixt the chimes and knell | G |
| The running battle of the star and clod | D |
| Shall run forever if there be no God | D |
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| Degrees we know unknown in days before | H |
| The light is greater hence the shadow more | H |
| And tantalized and apprehensive Man | I |
| Appealing Wherefore ripen us to pain | J |
| Seems there the spokesman of dumb Nature's | F |
| train | J |
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| But through such strange illusions have they | E |
| passed | D |
| Who in life's pilgrimage have baffled striven | K |
| Even death may prove unreal at the last | D |
| And stoics be astounded into heaven | K |
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| Then keep thy heart though yet but | D |
| ill resigned | D |
| Clarel thy heart the issues there but mind | D |
| That like the crocus budding through the | L |
| snow | M |
| That like a swimmer rising from the deep | N |
| That like a burning secret which doth go | M |
| Even from the bosom that would hoard and | D |
| keep | N |
| Emerge thou mayst from the last whelming | M |
| sea | F |
| And prove that death but routs life into victory | F |
Herman Melville
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