Mont Blanc Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBBADAEEC AFFAAAGHIAGIAJFJFAAG AKALAAALKAMMAHAMN OEEHOHJHAJAHAAAAPAAA HHAQHAAQRHRHSSH AHAAAJKJTHKHHHTAJAAE HEAAHHHAAOAHAAHUAUHE EAN NAVAWNAWVXAAAXHHHH

Lines written in the Vale of ChamouniA
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The everlasting universe of thingsB
Flows through the mind and rolls its rapid wavesC
Now dark now glittering now reflecting gloomD
Now lending splendor where from secret springsB
The source of human thought its tribute bringsB
Of waters with a sound but half its ownA
Such as a feeble brook will oft assumeD
In the wild woods amon the mountains loneA
Where waterfalls around it leap for everE
Where woods and winds contend and a vast riverE
Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and ravesC
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Thus thou Ravine of Arve dark deep RavineA
Thou many colored many voiced valeF
Over whose pines and crags and caverns sailF
Fast cloud shadows and sunbeams awful sceneA
Where Power in likeness of the Arve comes downA
From the ice gulfs that gird his secret throneA
Bursting through these dark mountains like the flameG
Of lightning through the tempest thou dost lieH
Thy giant brood of pines around thee clingingI
Children of elder time in whose devotionA
The chainless winds still come and ever cameG
To drink their odors and their mighty swingingI
To hear an old and solemn harmonyA
Thine earthly rainbows stretched across the sweepJ
Of the ethereal waterfall whose veilF
Robes some unsculptured image the strange sleepJ
Which when the voices of the desert failF
Wraps all in its own deep eternityA
Thy caverns echoing to the Arve's commotionA
A loud lone sound no other sound can tameG
Thou art pervaded with that ceaseless motionA
Thou art the path of that unresting soundK
Dizzy Ravine and when I gaze on theeA
I seem as in a trance sublime and strangeL
To muse on my own separate fantasyA
My own my human mind which passivelyA
Now renders and receives fast influencingsA
Holding an unremitting interchangeL
With the clear universe of things aroundK
One legion of wild thoughts whose wandering wingsA
Now float above thy darkness and now restM
Where that or thou art no unbidden guestM
In the still cave of the witch PoesyA
Seeking among the shadows that pass byH
Ghosts of all things that are some shade of theeA
Some phantom some faint image till the breastM
From which they fled recalls them thou art thereN
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Some say that gleams of a remoter worldO
Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumberE
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumberE
Of those who wake and live I look on highH
Has some unknown omnipotence unfurledO
The veil of life and death or do I lieH
In dream and does the mightier world of sleepJ
Spread far and round and inaccessiblyH
Its circles For the very spirit failsA
Driven like a homeless cloud from steep to steepJ
That vanishes amon the viewless galesA
Far far above piercing the infinite skyH
Mont Blanc appears still snowy and sereneA
Its subject mountains their unearthly formsA
Pile around it ice and rock broad vales betweenA
Of frozen floods unfathomable deepsA
Blue as the overhanging heaven that spreadP
And wind among the accumulated steepsA
A desert peopled by the storms aloneA
Save when the eagle brings some hunter's boneA
And the wolf tracks her there how hideouslyH
Its shapes are heaped around rude bare and highH
Ghastly and scarred and riven Is this the sceneA
Where the old Earthquake demon taught her youngQ
Ruin Were these their toys or did a seaH
Of fire envelop once this silent snowA
None can reply all seems eternal nowA
The wilderness has a mysterious tongueQ
Which teaches awful doubt or faith so mildR
So solemn so serene that man may beH
But for such faith with nature reconciledR
Thou hast a voice great Mountain to repealH
Large codes of fraud and woe not understoodS
By all but which the wise and great and goodS
Interpret or make felt or deeply feelH
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The fields the lakes the forests and the streamsA
Ocean and all the living things that dwellH
Within the daedal earth lightning and rainA
Earthquake and fiery flood and hurricaneA
The torpor of the year when feeble dreamsA
Visit the hidden buds or dreamless sleepJ
Holds every future leaf and flower the boundK
With which from that detested trance they leapJ
The works and ways of man their death and birthT
And that of him and all that his may beH
All things that move and breathe with toil and soundK
Are born and die revolve subside and swellH
Power dwells apart in its tranquilityH
Remote serene and inaccessibleH
And this the naked countenance of earthT
On which I gaze even these primeval mountainsA
Teach the adverting mind The glaciers creepJ
Like snakes that watch their prey from their far fountainsA
Slow rolling on there many a precipiceA
Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal powerE
Have piled dome pyramid and pinnacleH
A city of death distinct with many a towerE
And wall impregnable of beaming iceA
Yet not a city but a flood of ruinA
Is there that from the boundaries of the skyH
Rolls its perpetual stream vast pines are strewingH
Its destined path or in the mangled soilH
Branchless and shattered stand the rocks drawn downA
From yon remotest waste have overthrownA
The limits of the dead and living worldO
Never to be reclaimed The dwelling placeA
Of insects beasts and birds becomes its spoilH
Their food and their retreat for ever goneA
So much of life and joy is lost The raceA
Of man flies far in dread his work and dwellingH
Vanish like smoke before the tempest's streamU
And their place is not known Below vast cavesA
Shine in the rushing torrents' restless gleamU
Which from those secret chasms in tumult wellingH
Meet in the vale and one majestic RiverE
The breath and blood of distant lands for everE
Rolls its loud waters to the ocean wavesA
Breathes its swift vapors to the circling airN
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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high the power is thereN
The still and solemn power of many sightsA
And many sounds and much of life and deathV
In the calm darkness of the moonless nightsA
In the lone glare of day the snows descendW
Upon that mountain none beholds them thereN
Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sunA
Or the star beams dart through them Winds contendW
Silently there and heap the snow with breathV
Rapid and strong but silently Its homeX
The voiceless lightning in these solitudesA
Keeps innocently and like vapor broodsA
Over the snow The secret Strength of thingsA
Which governs thought and to the infinite domeX
Of Heaven is as a law inhabits theeH
And what were thou and earth and stars and seaH
If to the human mind's imaginingsH
Silence and solitude were vacancyH

Percy Bysshe Shelley



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