The Dispute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFECGCGHIFICJCJ DKFLMNFNNMMMHNNNCNCO CPPPNPPPQRMLLMCLCMCM PSPTHPQPNMCMPMCMCPCP QUPUPMPMCNCNPVPV| Once 'mid group of native mountains | A |
| Hot dispute arose | B |
| Elbrus angry did with Kasbek | C |
| Argument propose | B |
| 'Now beware ' the hoary Elbrus | D |
| Warning did exclaim | E |
| 'To enslave thee and enthrall thee | F |
| Is man's evil aim | E |
| Smoking huts he will be building | C |
| On thy mountain side | G |
| Loudly through thy clefts resounding | C |
| Ring his hatchet wide | G |
| The swift swinging iron shovel | H |
| Breast of stone will part | I |
| Of thy bronze and stone will rob thee | F |
| Pierce thee to the heart | I |
| Caravans e'en now are passing | C |
| Through thy rocks afar | J |
| Where before the fogs were swimming | C |
| And the Eagle Tsar | J |
| Ah mankind is bold and fearless | D |
| Dreads no lifted hand | K |
| Guard thee populous and mighty | F |
| Is the morning land ' | L |
| 'Threatens me the East ' then queried | M |
| Kasbek with disdain | N |
| 'There eight centuries already | F |
| Sleeping man has lain | N |
| See in shadow the Grusine | N |
| Gloats in lustful greed | M |
| On his many coloured raiment | M |
| Glints the winey bead | M |
| Drugged with fumes of his nargileh | H |
| Dreams the Mussulman | N |
| By the fountains on his divan | N |
| Slumbers Teheran | N |
| See Jerusalem is lying | C |
| At his feet o'erthrown | N |
| Deathly dumb and lifeless staring | C |
| As an earthly tomb | O |
| And beyond the Nile is washing | C |
| O'er the burning steps | P |
| Of the Kingly mausoleums | P |
| Yellow shadowless | P |
| In his tent the hunt forgotten | N |
| Now the Bedouin lies | P |
| Sings the old ancestral legends | P |
| Scans the starry skies | P |
| See far as the eye can venture | Q |
| All sleeps as before | R |
| No the threat of dreaming Orient | M |
| Frights me nevermore ' | L |
| 'Laugh thou not too early Kasbek ' | L |
| Elbrus did persist | M |
| 'Look What vast mass is it turning | C |
| Northward through the mist ' | L |
| Secretly the heart of Kasbek | C |
| Faltered as amazed | M |
| Silent and with dark foreboding | C |
| To the North he gazed | M |
| Full of woe stared in the distance | P |
| What a thronging swarm | S |
| Hark there rings the clash of weapons | P |
| Battle cry alarm | T |
| From the Don unto the Ural | H |
| What a human sea | P |
| Regiments that wave and glitter | Q |
| Past all counting be | P |
| Feathers white like sedge of ocean | N |
| Waving in a gust | M |
| Many coloured Uhlans storming | C |
| Through the blowing dust | M |
| The imperial battalions | P |
| Densely packed proceed | M |
| Trumpets flaring banners flying | C |
| In the victor's lead | M |
| Batteries with brasses rattling | C |
| Conquering advance | P |
| With their blood red splendor flashing | C |
| Cannon matches glance | P |
| And a battle proved commander | Q |
| Leads the army there | U |
| From whose eyes the lightning flashes | P |
| 'Neath his snowy hair | U |
| Swells the host until as Griesbach's | P |
| Billows roaring loud | M |
| From the Eastward nears the army | P |
| As a thunder cloud | M |
| Kasbek peered with sinister boding | C |
| Through the clouds would fain | N |
| Count his enemies approaching | C |
| Found it was in vain | N |
| Threw one glance unto the mountains | P |
| Anguished overcome | V |
| O'er his brow drew close the vapours | P |
| Was forever dumb | V |
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
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