Poet Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

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The Last Glen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC B D EFGGHHBEBFBBBBBIBFIF GGJGKAKLJBMLGABBBNBM B

Hist once moreA
Listen Pausanias Aye 'tis CalliclesB
I know those notes among a thousand HarkC
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CALLICLESB
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Sings unseen from belowD
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The track winds down to the clear streamE
To cross the sparkling shallows thereF
The cattle love to gather on their wayG
To the high mountain pastures and to stayG
Till the rough cow herds drive them pastH
Knee deep in the cool ford for 'tis the lastH
Of all the woody high well water'd dellsB
On Etna and the beamE
Of noon is broken there by chestnut boughsB
Down its steep verdant sides the airF
Is freshen'd by the leaping stream which throwsB
Eternal showers of spray on the moss'd rootsB
Of trees and veins of turf and long dark shootsB
Of ivy plants and fragrant hanging bellsB
Of hyacinths and on late anemoniesB
That muffle its wet banks but gladeI
And stream and sward and chestnut treesB
End here Etna beyond in the broad glareF
Of the hot noon without a shadeI
Slope behind slope up to the peak lies bareF
The peak round which the white clouds playG
In such a glen on such a dayG
On Pelion on the grassy groundJ
Chiron the aged Centaur layG
The young Achilles standing byK
The Centaur taught him to exploreA
The mountains where the glens are dryK
And the tired Centaurs come to restL
And where the soaking springs aboundJ
And the straight ashes grow for spearsB
And where the hill goats come to feedM
And the sea eagles build their nestL
He show'd him Phthia far awayG
And said O boy I taught this loreA
To Peleus in long distant yearsB
He told him of the Gods the starsB
The tides and then of mortal warsB
And of the life which heroes leadN
Before they reach the Elysian placeB
And rest in the immortal meadM
And all the wisdom of his raceB

Matthew Arnold



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