Anhelli - Chapter 2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JGJ KE DLJ M N OPQ RJ STDUMD SVW XYZD DF VDF JA2 JLB2| The Shaman when he had searched in the hearts of that multitude of exiles | A |
| said to himself 'Verily I have not found here what I sought | B |
| lo their hearts are weak and they give themselves over to be conquered by grief | C |
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| 'In happiness they would have become a good people | D |
| but misery will transform them into men evil and mischievous | E |
| What hast Thou done O God | F |
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| 'Dost Thou not grant to every flower to come to bloom there where | G |
| it hath the soil and the means of living proper to it | H |
| Why are these people to perish | I |
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| 'I will choose then one among them and will love him as a son | J |
| and dying I will give to him my burden and a greater burden than others are able to bear | G |
| so that in him there may be redemption | J |
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| 'And I will show him all the sorrows of this earth | K |
| and then will I leave him alone in great darkness | E |
| with the load of thoughts and yearnings in his heart ' | - |
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| Having spoken thus he called to him a youth by the name of Anhelli | D |
| and having laid his hands upon him he breathed into him | L |
| heartfelt love for men and compassion | J |
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| And turning to the crowd he said | M |
| 'I will go away with this youth to show him many grievous things and ye shall ' | - |
| remain alone to learn how to endure hunger wretchedness and sorrow | N |
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| 'But be full of hope | O |
| for hope shall pass from you to future generations and make them alive | P |
| Io but if it dieth in you then the future generations will be of dead men | Q |
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| 'And that thin of which ye shall think shall be fulfilled | R |
| and there shall be great joy on earth on that day of resurrection | J |
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| 'But ye shall be in your graves | S |
| and the shrouds shall be mouldered upon you | T |
| nevertheless your graves shall be holy | D |
| and God shall even turn the worms from your bodies and | U |
| shall clothe you in the proud dignity of the dead | M |
| Ye shall be beautiful | D |
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| 'Just as are your fathers who are in their graves | S |
| for look upon each one of their skulls | V |
| it doth not gnash its teeth nor suffer | W |
| but is calm and seemeth to say I have done well ' | - |
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| 'Keep watch over yourselves for ye are like | X |
| 'And did there not come forth from the northern lights | Y |
| an angel when I summoned him from the flames | Z |
| Ask my people | D |
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| 'At my word this snow became blood and this sun grew black as coal | D |
| for in me there is much of God | F |
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| 'But tempt me not asking for miracles | V |
| for ye are an old people and to restore you is a miracle | D |
| For that beseech God | F |
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| 'That He may restore you I say and raise io you from the tomb and make of you a nation | J |
| which a second time is laid in the cradle and ' wrapped in swaddling clothes | A2 |
| that it may grow up straight and not crooked in body ' | - |
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| Thus spake the Shaman | J |
| and the exiles dared not answer him | L |
| but they promised to keep the covenant with the people of Siberia | B2 |
Juliusz Slowacki
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