Anhelli - Chapter 4 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BC BB DEE BF GGH EBB IJK EE LME ENL BLBO BLP QNH R SB N OOE BBBE BN AN EE QOEE BEBAnd the Shaman passed with Anhelli over the desert ways of Siberia | A |
where stood prisons | B |
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And they beheld the countenances of some prisoners through the gratings | B |
gloomy and wan gazing at the sky | C |
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And beside one of those prisons they fell in with men bearing coffins | B |
and the Shaman stayed them bidding them open the coffins | B |
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Then when they had taken off the coffin lids Anhelli shuddered | D |
seeing that the dead were still in chains and he said | E |
'Shaman lo I am afraid lest these martyrs may never rise from the dead | E |
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'Waken one of them for thou hast power to work miracles | B |
waken this old man with the grey beard and the white hair | F |
for it seemeth to me that I knew him when he was alive ' | - |
But the Shaman looking down sternly said 'Wherefore then | G |
Lo I will restore him but thou shalt kill him again | G |
Verily even twice will I raise him and twice from thee shall he receive death | H |
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'Nevertheless let it be as thou requirest | E |
that thou mayst know that death protecteth us from sorrows | B |
which have already set out on the way to meet us | B |
but have found us dead ' | - |
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So saying the Shaman looked down upon the old man in the coffin | I |
and said 'Arise ' and the body in chains raised itself and sat up | J |
gazing at the people like a man asleep | K |
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And recognizing him at that moment Anhelli said | E |
'Hail thou man mighty aforetime in council and one of the wisest | E |
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'What then befell thee in prison | L |
that thou didst bend thyself before power and make | M |
that confession of guilt of which we have heard | E |
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'Why didst thou deny thine own heart and thine own past | E |
With their tortures did they take from thee reason and memory | N |
What hast thou done | L |
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'Thou hast worked us injury for today stranger people say to us | B |
Lo your leaders deny themselves and change their hearts for the nation | L |
and only little men remain in their constancy ' This constancy of little men is then stubbornness | B |
since the foremost men in the nation acknowledge their error | O |
not even expecting forgiveness ' ' | - |
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And when Anhelli had spoken thus | B |
it came to pass according to the words of the Shaman | L |
that the man who had been resurrected groaned ' and died anew | P |
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Then said the Shaman 'Thou hast killed him Anhelli | Q |
repeating men's slanders and calumny | N |
which he knew not before his death | H |
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'Nevertheless I will raise him a second time | R |
and do thou watch that thou bring him not a second time to his death ' | - |
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Having spoken thus he waked the dead man | S |
and that man in the coffin raised himself shedding tears from his opened eyelids | B |
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And Anhelli said to him 'Forgive me for I knew not that I spake slanders and calumny | N |
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'Lo I have seen thee in the council of the nation with thy brother | O |
and I have seen your two heads ever together | O |
in their whiteness like two doves that fly down together upon millet | E |
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'For it is true that ye flew down like two doves upon the urn of plans | B |
and stripped from the husks the grain of the laws | B |
and upon your chaff flew down little sparrows | B |
chirping of things of less import | E |
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'Forgive me that I compare you to God's birds | B |
and trifling things for so your whiteness and simplicity bid me | N |
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'O unfortunates Lo one seeketh rest in a graveyard in Siberia | A |
and the other lieth under the roses and cypresses of the Seine | N |
Poor doves who were separated and died ' | - |
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Hearing those words the man who had been resurrected cried out | E |
'My brother ' and fell back in the coffin and died | E |
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And the Shaman said to Anhelli | Q |
'Why didst thou tell him of the death of his brother | O |
Lo a moment and he would have learned it from God | E |
and would have met his beloved brother in the heavenly land | E |
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'It hath come to pass | B |
Let them cover these coffins and bear them to the graveyard | E |
And do thou not beseech me more to raise those | B |
from the dead who sleep and find rest ' | - |
Juliusz Slowacki
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