Anhelli - Chapter 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DD EFG HIJK LMN OPQ FN R STU VDR WN XN AYZ IU AA2| Exiles came to the land of Siberia and having chosen a broad site they built a | A |
| wooden house that they might dwell together in concord and brotherly love and | B |
| there were of them about a thousand men of various stations in life | C |
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| And the government had provided women for them that they might marry | D |
| because their sentence made known that they were sent to people the country | D |
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| For a time there was among them great order and great sorrow | E |
| for they could not forget that they were exiles | F |
| and that they should see their fatherland no more unless God should will it | G |
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| And when they had already built the house and each one had taken up his own work | H |
| except the people who desired to be called wise men who remained in idleness saying | I |
| 'Lo we ponder on the salvation of the father land ' they beheld upon a time a great flock | J |
| of black birds flying from the north | K |
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| After the birds there appeared a sort of train and caravan | L |
| and sledges harnessed with dogs and a herd of reindeer with branching horns | M |
| and men on skis bearing spears it was the whole Siberian people | N |
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| At their head moreover walked the king of the people who was at the same time a priest | O |
| dressed according to their custom in furs and in corals | P |
| and he wore a wreath of dead serpents instead of a crown | Q |
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| Then that ruler drawing near to the throng of exiles | F |
| said in the language of their own land 'Hail | N |
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| 'Behold I have known your fathers who were also unfortunate | R |
| and I have seen how they lived in the fear of God and died saying Fatherland Fatherland ' | - |
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| 'Therefore do I wish to be your friend and to make a covenant | S |
| between you and my people that ye may be in an hospitable land | T |
| and in a country of well wishers | U |
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| 'And of your fathers now is none living except one only who is already old | V |
| and who is well inclined toward me | D |
| but he dwelleth far hence in a lonely hut | R |
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| 'If ye desire that the friend of your fathers be your leader | W |
| I will abide with you and forsake my own people | N |
| for ye are the more unfortunate ' | - |
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| Yet more that old man said and they showed | X |
| him reverence and invited him to their tabernacle | N |
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| And they made a covenant with the people of Siberia | A |
| who departed and settled in their snowy villages | Y |
| but their king remained with the exiles that he might comfort them | Z |
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| And they marvelled at his wisdom saying | I |
| 'Lo this he hath surely gotten from our fathers | U |
| and his words are from our ancestors ' | - |
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| And they called him Shaman for so the people of Siberia | A |
| call their kings and priests who are wizards | A2 |
Juliusz Slowacki
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