Stanzas Composed At Carnac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HAHA IJIJ AKAL GAGA AMAM NHOH EPEP JLJL PEPE

Far on its rocky knoll descriedA
Saint Michael's chapel cuts the skyB
I climb'd beneath me bright and wideA
Lay the lone coast of BrittanyC
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Bright in the sunset weird and stillD
It lay beside the Atlantic waveE
As if the wizard Merlin's willD
Yet charm'd it from his forest graveE
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Behind me on their grassy sweepF
Bearded with lichen scrawl'd and greyG
The giant stones of Carnac sleepF
In the mild evening of the MayG
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No priestly stern procession nowH
Streams through their rows of pillars oldA
No victims bleed no Druids bowH
Sheep make the furze grown aisles their foldA
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From bush to bush the cuckoo fliesI
The orchis red gleams everywhereJ
Gold broom with furze in blossom viesI
The blue bells perfume all the airJ
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And o'er the glistening lonely landA
Rise up all round the Christian spiresK
The church of Carnac by the strandA
Catches the westering sun's last firesL
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And there across the watery wayG
See low above the tide at floodA
The sickle sweep of Quiberon bayG
Whose beach once ran with loyal bloodA
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And beyond that the Atlantic wideA
All round no soul no boat no hailM
But on the horizon's verge descriedA
Hangs touch'd with light one snowy sailM
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Ah where is he who should have comeN
Where that far sail is passing nowH
Past the Loire's mouth and by the foamO
Of Finist re's unquiet browH
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Home round into the English waveE
He tarries where the Rock of SpainP
Mediterranean waters laveE
He enters not the Atlantic mainP
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Oh could he once have reach'd this airJ
Freshen'd by plunging tides by showersL
Have felt this breath he loved of fairJ
Cool northern fields and grass and flowersL
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He long'd for it press'd on In vainP
At the Straits fail'd that spirit braveE
The South was parent of his painP
The South is mistress of his graveE

Matthew Arnold



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