A Farewell To Agassiz Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEBBBFBBBAAGGHH IIAAFFBBAAAAFFAJAABB KKKKAAHHAABBBBLLGGMM BB HHNOMMMBBMMAAMMMAAKK KBBABBAAAHow the mountains talked together | A |
Looking down upon the weather | A |
When they heard our friend had planned his | B |
Little trip among the Andes | C |
How they'll bare their snowy scalps | D |
To the climber of the Alps | D |
When the cry goes through their passes | E |
Here comes the great Agassiz | B |
Yes I'm tall says Chimborazo | B |
But I wait for him to say so | B |
That's the only thing that lacks he | F |
Must see me Cotopaxi | B |
Ay ay the fire peak thunders | B |
And he must view my wonders | B |
I'm but a lonely crater | A |
Till I have him for spectator | A |
The mountain hearts are yearning | G |
The lava torches burning | G |
The rivers bend to meet him | H |
The forests bow to greet him | H |
It thrills the spinal column | I |
Of fossil fishes solemn | I |
And glaciers crawl the faster | A |
To the feet of their old master | A |
Heaven keep him well and hearty | F |
Both him and all his party | F |
From the sun that broils and smites | B |
From the centipede that bites | B |
From the hail storm and the thunder | A |
From the vampire and the condor | A |
From the gust upon the river | A |
From the sudden earthquake shiver | A |
From the trip of mule or donkey | F |
From the midnight howling monkey | F |
From the stroke of knife or dagger | A |
From the puma and the jaguar | J |
From the horrid boa constrictor | A |
That has scared us in the picture | A |
From the Indians of the Pampas | B |
Who would dine upon their grampas | B |
From every beast and vermin | K |
That to think of sets us squirmin' | K |
From every snake that tries on | K |
The traveller his p'ison | K |
From every pest of Natur' | A |
Likewise the alligator | A |
And from two things left behind him | H |
Be sure they'll try to find him | H |
The tax bill and assessor | A |
Heaven keep the great Professor | A |
May he find with his apostles | B |
That the land is full of fossils | B |
That the waters swarm with fishes | B |
Shaped according to his wishes | B |
That every pool is fertile | L |
In fancy kinds of turtle | L |
New birds around him singing | G |
New insects never stinging | G |
With a million novel data | M |
About the articulata | M |
And facts that strip off all husks | B |
From the history of mollusks | B |
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And when with loud Te Deum | H |
He returns to his Museum | H |
May he find the monstrous reptile | N |
That so long the land has kept ill | O |
By Grant and Sherman throttled | M |
And by Father Abraham bottled | M |
All specked and streaked and mottled | M |
With the scars of murderous battles | B |
Where he clashed the iron rattles | B |
That gods and men he shook at | M |
For all the world to look at | M |
God bless the great Professor | A |
And Madam too God bless her | A |
Bless him and all his band | M |
On the sea and on the land | M |
Bless them head and heart and hand | M |
Till their glorious raid is o'er | A |
And they touch our ransomed shore | A |
Then the welcome of a nation | K |
With its shout of exultation | K |
Shall awake the dumb creation | K |
And the shapes of buried aeons | B |
Join the living creature's paeans | B |
Till the fossil echoes roar | A |
While the mighty megalosaurus | B |
Leads the palaeozoic chorus | B |
God bless the great Professor | A |
And the land his proud possessor | A |
Bless them now and evermore | A |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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