The Apparition: A Retrospect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CADDA AEFFE| Convulsions came and where the field | A |
| Long slept in pastoral green | B |
| A goblin mountain was upheaved | A |
| Sure the scared sense was all deceived | A |
| Marl glen and slag ravine | B |
| - | |
| The unreserve of Ill was there | C |
| The clinkers in her last retreat | A |
| But ere the eye could take it in | D |
| Or mind could comprehension win | D |
| It sunk and at our feet | A |
| - | |
| So then Solidity's a crust | A |
| The core of fire below | E |
| All may go well for many a year | F |
| But who can think without a fear | F |
| Of horrors that happen so | E |
Herman Melville
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