The Last Prophecy Of Cassandra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU VTVT WXWX| THE sun is fading in the skies | A |
| And evening shades are gathering fast | B |
| Fair city ere that sun shall rise | A |
| Thy night hath come thy day is past | B |
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| Ye know not but the hour is nigh | C |
| Ye will not heed the warning breath | D |
| No vision strikes your clouded eye | C |
| To break the sleep that wakes in death | D |
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| Go age and let thy withered cheek | E |
| Be wet once more with freezing tears | F |
| And bid thy trembling sorrows speak | E |
| In accents of departed years | G |
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| Go child and pour thy sinless prayer | H |
| Before the everlasting throne | I |
| And He who sits in glory there | H |
| May stoop to hear thy silver tone | I |
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| Go warrior in thy glittering steel | J |
| And bow thee at the altar's side | K |
| And bid thy frowning gods reveal | J |
| The doom their mystic counsels hide | K |
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| Go maiden in thy flowing veil | L |
| And bare thy brow and bend thy knee | M |
| When the last hopes of mercy fail | L |
| Thy God may yet remember thee | M |
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| Go as thou didst in happier hours | N |
| And lay thine incense on the shrine | O |
| And greener leaves and fairer flowers | N |
| Around the sacred image twine | O |
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| I saw them rise the buried dead | P |
| From marble tomb and grassy mound | Q |
| I heard the spirits' printless tread | P |
| And voices not of earthly sound | Q |
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| I looked upon the quivering stream | R |
| And its cold wave was bright with flame | S |
| And wild as from a fearful dream | R |
| The wasted forms of battle came | S |
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| Ye will not hear ye will not know | T |
| Ye scorn the maniac's idle song | U |
| Ye care not but the voice of woe | T |
| Shall thunder loud and echo long | U |
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| Blood shall be in your marble halls | V |
| And spears shall glance and fire shall glow | T |
| Ruin shall sit upon your walls | V |
| But ye shall lie in death below | T |
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| Ay none shall live to hear the storm | W |
| Around their blackened pillars sweep | X |
| To shudder at the reptile's form | W |
| Or scare the wild bird from her sleep | X |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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