Palladium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM| Set where the upper streams of Simois flow | A |
| Was the Palladium high 'mid rock and wood | B |
| And Hector was in Ilium far below | A |
| And fought and saw it not but there it stood | B |
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| It stood and sun and moonshine rain'd their light | C |
| On the pure columns of its glen built hall | D |
| Backward and forward roll'd the waves of fight | C |
| Round Troy but while this stood Troy could not fall | D |
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| So in its lovely moonlight lives the soul | E |
| Mountains surround it and sweet virgin air | F |
| Cold plashing past it crystal waters roll | E |
| We visit it by moments ah too rare | F |
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| We shall renew the battle in the plain | G |
| To morrow red with blood will Xanthus be | H |
| Hector and Ajax will be there again | I |
| Helen will come upon the wall to see | H |
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| Then we shall rust in shade or shine in strife | J |
| And fluctuate 'twixt blind hopes and blind despairs | K |
| And fancy that we put forth all our life | J |
| And never know how with the soul it fares | K |
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| Still doth the soul from its lone fastness high | L |
| Upon our life a ruling effluence send | M |
| And when it fails fight as we will we die | L |
| And while it lasts we cannot wholly end | M |
Matthew Arnold
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