Electric Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFCC BBGG HHII JJKK JJJJ LLJJ| When the great Bulwer's pen did trace | A |
| The history of the coming race | A |
| His hero to us he hath unfurled | B |
| The glories of his new found world | B |
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| This bold traveller be did venture | C |
| Far below our world's centre | C |
| He entered through an ancient mine | D |
| And to us doth new world define | D |
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| Once all was discord and fierce jars | E |
| Continuous engaged in wars | F |
| Till they discovered great vrill power | C |
| Then wars did cease from that same hour | C |
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| Mighty bolts from it were hurled | B |
| Would soon have laid waste the world | B |
| So for world's preservation | G |
| At once they stopped desolation | G |
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| All wars by them are now despised | H |
| Unfit for nation civilized | H |
| Their peaceful glories they do sing | I |
| And fly on artificial wing | I |
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| Great blazing artificial light | J |
| It ever burns both day and night | J |
| For they have neither sun nor moon | K |
| But radient always 'tis high noon | K |
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| When we beheld the glorious sight | J |
| High in the air did shine so bright | J |
| It seemed that it could banish night | J |
| Great refulgent electric light | J |
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| But after all 'tis children's play | L |
| Compared with the great orb of day | L |
| Or when the moon it doth shine bright | J |
| And stars do beautify the night | J |
James Mcintyre
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