Anhelli - Chapter 9 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDE F GHI JK LM NOP Q RR RN SA TU| And when the Shaman was about to go forth with Anhelli under the stars | A |
| having comforted some of the prisoners | B |
| he heard a great clanking in one of the corridors | B |
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| Turning therefore to one of those who followed him | C |
| he asked him what that might be that clanking of iron and beating | D |
| And the prisoner answered 'They are punishing one of us | E |
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| 'Evidently the old man who yesterday refused to work | F |
| because of God's holiday they are making run the gauntlet ' | - |
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| And the Shaman and Anhelli having repaired to the place of torture | G |
| beheld in a corridor two ranks of men standing with chains in their hands | H |
| each in the posture of a man who designeth to strike | I |
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| And they saw advancing towards them two soldiers with lamps | J |
| and in the centre behind them stripped to the girdle a man with a grey beard | K |
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| And at every step as he approached was heard the blow of a chain | L |
| and a second clang coming from the gaunt breast of the old man who was beaten | M |
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| When he was already at the end of the punishment | N |
| and there remained to him scarce ten paces or a little more | O |
| Anhelli heard two blows weaker as if given by merciful men | P |
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| But the old man on receiving them fell in a cross upon the ground and was dead | Q |
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| So those two young men who had struck him mercifully | R |
| fell upon his shoulders and lay upon his dead body | R |
| calling out one and the other 'My father ' | - |
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| And the Shaman turned away and looking upon Anhelli | R |
| covered Anhelli's head with the skirt of his own garment | N |
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| And he bade himself be borne away by heavenly spirits | S |
| and opening his eyes Anhelli beheld the snow and the stars | A |
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| And he was persuaded that the vision of the mines was a dream | T |
| for he knew not how he had come away from them | U |
Juliusz Slowacki
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