Verses From The Oldest Portfolio - First Verses - Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1824 Or 1825 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBAACCDDEFAAGGHHIIJJ KKHHLLHHMMHHHHMNOO| Translation From The Eneid Book I | A |
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| The god looked out upon the troubled deep | B |
| Waked into tumult from its placid sleep | B |
| The flame of anger kindles in his eye | A |
| As the wild waves ascend the lowering sky | A |
| He lifts his head above their awful height | C |
| And to the distant fleet directs his sight | C |
| Now borne aloft upon the billow's crest | D |
| Struck by the bolt or by the winds oppressed | D |
| And well he knew that Juno's vengeful ire | E |
| Frowned from those clouds and sparkled in that fire | F |
| On rapid pinions as they whistled by | A |
| He calls swift Zephyrus and Eurus nigh | A |
| Is this your glory in a noble line | G |
| To leave your confines and to ravage mine | G |
| Whom I but let these troubled waves subside | H |
| Another tempest and I'll quell your pride | H |
| Go bear our message to your master's ear | I |
| That wide as ocean I am despot here | I |
| Let him sit monarch in his barren caves | J |
| I wield the trident and control the waves | J |
| He said and as the gathered vapors break | K |
| The swelling ocean seemed a peaceful lake | K |
| To lift their ships the graceful nymphs essayed | H |
| And the strong trident lent its powerful aid | H |
| The dangerous banks are sunk beneath the main | L |
| And the light chariot skims the unruffled plain | L |
| As when sedition fires the public mind | H |
| And maddening fury leads the rabble blind | H |
| The blazing torch lights up the dread alarm | M |
| Rage points the steel and fury nerves the arm | M |
| Then if some reverend Sage appear in sight | H |
| They stand they gaze and check their headlong flight | H |
| He turns the current of each wandering breast | H |
| And hushes every passion into rest | H |
| Thus by the power of his imperial arm | M |
| The boiling ocean trembled into calm | N |
| With flowing reins the father sped his way | O |
| And smiled serene upon rekindled day | O |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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