Portents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEDEFGGFHIHIJKLJ MNONPQQPRSRSTNUTVWVX| ABOVE the world a glare | A |
| Of sunset guns and spears | B |
| An army no one hears | C |
| Of mist and air | A |
| Long lines of bronze and gold | D |
| Huge helmets each a cloud | E |
| And then a fortress old | D |
| There in the night that phantoms seem to crowd | E |
| A face of flame a hand | F |
| Of crimson alchemy | G |
| Is waved and solemnly | G |
| At its command | F |
| Opens a fiery well | H |
| A burning hole | I |
| From which a stream of hell | H |
| A river of blood in frenzy seems to roll | I |
| And there upon a throne | J |
| Like some vast precipice | K |
| Above that River of Dis | L |
| Behold a King alone | J |
| Around whom shapes of blood | M |
| Take form each one the peer | N |
| Of those who in the wood | O |
| Of Dante's Hell froze up the heart with fear | N |
| Then shapes that breast to breast | P |
| Gallop to face a foe | Q |
| And through the crimson glow | Q |
| Th' imperial crest | P |
| Of him whose banner flies | R |
| Above a world that burns | S |
| A raven in the skies | R |
| And as it flies into a Death's Head turns | S |
| The wild trees writhe and twist | T |
| Their gaunt limbs wrung with fear | N |
| And now into my ear | U |
| A word seems hissed | T |
| A message filled with dread | V |
| A dark foreboding word | W |
| 'Behold we are the dead | V |
| Who here on Earth lived only by the sword ' | X |
Madison Julius Cawein
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