Stanzas Composed At Carnac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HAHA IJIJ AKAL GAGA AMAM NHOH EPEP JLJL PEPEFar on its rocky knoll descried | A |
Saint Michael's chapel cuts the sky | B |
I climb'd beneath me bright and wide | A |
Lay the lone coast of Brittany | C |
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Bright in the sunset weird and still | D |
It lay beside the Atlantic wave | E |
As if the wizard Merlin's will | D |
Yet charm'd it from his forest grave | E |
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Behind me on their grassy sweep | F |
Bearded with lichen scrawl'd and grey | G |
The giant stones of Carnac sleep | F |
In the mild evening of the May | G |
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No priestly stern procession now | H |
Streams through their rows of pillars old | A |
No victims bleed no Druids bow | H |
Sheep make the furze grown aisles their fold | A |
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From bush to bush the cuckoo flies | I |
The orchis red gleams everywhere | J |
Gold broom with furze in blossom vies | I |
The blue bells perfume all the air | J |
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And o'er the glistening lonely land | A |
Rise up all round the Christian spires | K |
The church of Carnac by the strand | A |
Catches the westering sun's last fires | L |
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And there across the watery way | G |
See low above the tide at flood | A |
The sickle sweep of Quiberon bay | G |
Whose beach once ran with loyal blood | A |
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And beyond that the Atlantic wide | A |
All round no soul no boat no hail | M |
But on the horizon's verge descried | A |
Hangs touch'd with light one snowy sail | M |
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Ah where is he who should have come | N |
Where that far sail is passing now | H |
Past the Loire's mouth and by the foam | O |
Of Finist re's unquiet brow | H |
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Home round into the English wave | E |
He tarries where the Rock of Spain | P |
Mediterranean waters lave | E |
He enters not the Atlantic main | P |
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Oh could he once have reach'd this air | J |
Freshen'd by plunging tides by showers | L |
Have felt this breath he loved of fair | J |
Cool northern fields and grass and flowers | L |
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He long'd for it press'd on In vain | P |
At the Straits fail'd that spirit brave | E |
The South was parent of his pain | P |
The South is mistress of his grave | E |
Matthew Arnold
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