Carbery Rocks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKKLM NNOOPPQQRRSTUUVVWWXX YYZZA2P| TRANSLATED BY DR DUNKIN | A |
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| Lo from the top of yonder cliff that shrouds | B |
| Its airy head amid the azure clouds | B |
| Hangs a huge fragment destitute of props | C |
| Prone on the wave the rocky ruin drops | C |
| With hoarse rebuff the swelling seas rebound | D |
| From shore to shore the rocks return the sound | D |
| The dreadful murmur Heaven's high convex cleaves | E |
| And Neptune shrinks beneath his subject waves | F |
| For long the whirling winds and beating tides | G |
| Had scoop'd a vault into its nether sides | G |
| Now yields the base the summits nod now urge | H |
| Their headlong course and lash the sounding surge | H |
| Not louder noise could shake the guilty world | I |
| When Jove heap'd mountains upon mountains hurl'd | I |
| Retorting Pelion from his dread abode | J |
| To crush Earth's rebel sons beneath the load | J |
| Oft too with hideous yawn the cavern wide | K |
| Presents an orifice on either side | K |
| A dismal orifice from sea to sea | L |
| Extended pervious to the God of Day | M |
| Uncouthly join'd the rocks stupendous form | N |
| An arch the ruin of a future storm | N |
| High on the cliff their nests the woodquests make | O |
| And sea calves stable in the oozy lake | O |
| But when bleak Winter with his sullen train | P |
| Awakes the winds to vex the watery plain | P |
| When o'er the craggy steep without control | Q |
| Big with the blast the raging billows roll | Q |
| Not towns beleaguer'd not the flaming brand | R |
| Darted from Heaven by Jove's avenging hand | R |
| Oft as on impious men his wrath he pours | S |
| Humbles their pride and blasts their gilded towers | T |
| Equal the tumult of this wild uproar | U |
| Waves rush o'er waves rebellows shore to shore | U |
| The neighbouring race though wont to brave the shocks | V |
| Of angry seas and run along the rocks | V |
| Now pale with terror while the ocean foams | W |
| Fly far and wide nor trust their native homes | W |
| The goats while pendent from the mountain top | X |
| The wither'd herb improvident they crop | X |
| Wash'd down the precipice with sudden sweep | Y |
| Leave their sweet lives beneath th'unfathom'd deep | Y |
| The frighted fisher with desponding eyes | Z |
| Though safe yet trembling in the harbour lies | Z |
| Nor hoping to behold the skies serene | A2 |
| Wearies with vows the monarch of the main | P |
Jonathan Swift
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