The New Zealot To The Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDD EEFDDF DDGHHG DDIJJI DDKJJK DDEDDEPersian you rise | A |
Aflame from climes of sacrifice | B |
Where adulators sue | C |
And prostrate man with brow abased | D |
Adheres to rites whose tenor traced | D |
All worship hitherto | D |
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Arch type of sway | E |
Meetly your over ruling ray | E |
You fling from Asia's plain | F |
Whence flashed the javelins abroad | D |
Of many a wild incursive horde | D |
Led by some shepherd Cain | F |
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Mid terrors dinned | D |
Gods too came conquerors from your Ind | D |
The book of Brahma throve | G |
They came like to the scythed car | H |
Westward they rolled their empire far | H |
Of night their purple wove | G |
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Chemist you breed | D |
In orient climes each sorcerous weed | D |
That energizes dream | I |
Transmitted spread in myths and creeds | J |
Houris and hells delirious screeds | J |
And Calvin's last extreme | I |
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What though your light | D |
In time's first dawn compelled the flight | D |
Of Chaos' startled clan | K |
Shall never all your darted spears | J |
Disperse worse Anarchs frauds and fears | J |
Sprung from these weeds to man | K |
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But Science yet | D |
An effluence ampler shall beget | D |
And power beyond your play | E |
Shall quell the shades you fail to rout | D |
Yea searching every secret out | D |
Elucidate your ray | E |
Herman Melville
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