The Last Glen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC B D EFGGHHBEBFBBBBBIBFIF GGJGKAKLJBMLGABBBNBM B| Hist once more | A |
| Listen Pausanias Aye 'tis Callicles | B |
| I know those notes among a thousand Hark | C |
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| CALLICLES | B |
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| Sings unseen from below | D |
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| The track winds down to the clear stream | E |
| To cross the sparkling shallows there | F |
| The cattle love to gather on their way | G |
| To the high mountain pastures and to stay | G |
| Till the rough cow herds drive them past | H |
| Knee deep in the cool ford for 'tis the last | H |
| Of all the woody high well water'd dells | B |
| On Etna and the beam | E |
| Of noon is broken there by chestnut boughs | B |
| Down its steep verdant sides the air | F |
| Is freshen'd by the leaping stream which throws | B |
| Eternal showers of spray on the moss'd roots | B |
| Of trees and veins of turf and long dark shoots | B |
| Of ivy plants and fragrant hanging bells | B |
| Of hyacinths and on late anemonies | B |
| That muffle its wet banks but glade | I |
| And stream and sward and chestnut trees | B |
| End here Etna beyond in the broad glare | F |
| Of the hot noon without a shade | I |
| Slope behind slope up to the peak lies bare | F |
| The peak round which the white clouds play | G |
| In such a glen on such a day | G |
| On Pelion on the grassy ground | J |
| Chiron the aged Centaur lay | G |
| The young Achilles standing by | K |
| The Centaur taught him to explore | A |
| The mountains where the glens are dry | K |
| And the tired Centaurs come to rest | L |
| And where the soaking springs abound | J |
| And the straight ashes grow for spears | B |
| And where the hill goats come to feed | M |
| And the sea eagles build their nest | L |
| He show'd him Phthia far away | G |
| And said O boy I taught this lore | A |
| To Peleus in long distant years | B |
| He told him of the Gods the stars | B |
| The tides and then of mortal wars | B |
| And of the life which heroes lead | N |
| Before they reach the Elysian place | B |
| And rest in the immortal mead | M |
| And all the wisdom of his race | B |
Matthew Arnold
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