Montenegro Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI DJKJ LMLM DNDN OPOP QRQF NSNS NTNT UVUV WXWX| Coiled in shadow the serpent seas | A |
| Engirdle perilous hills sublime | B |
| By tortuous steep degrees | A |
| Toward the morn I climb | B |
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| Before me the mountain soaring vast | C |
| Secludes the bright east cold the air | D |
| Descends from ridges massed | C |
| In peaks snowily fair | D |
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| But pale in the northern distance blushes | E |
| On sparkling ranges a light austere | F |
| Tingeing the shade it flushes | G |
| Edge and barrier sheer | F |
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| Cattaro roofs and Cattaro quay | H |
| Grow faint and delicate ships that ride | I |
| On the dense blue slumbering sea | H |
| Dwindle on either side | I |
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| From mirroring gulfs the mountains bare | D |
| Are mapped to the heaven strange as a dream | J |
| The Adriatic afar | K |
| Trembles a molten gleam | J |
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| Till the sun salutes me met with him | L |
| On the naked summit closed behind | M |
| That vision of countries dim | L |
| Pales and fades from the mind | M |
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| Now drinking the eager lofty air | D |
| The spirit leaps as the eyes behold | N |
| Valleys severely fair | D |
| Freedom's fortress of old | N |
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| Young stern soldiers in rich attire | O |
| Haughtily moving with silent pace | P |
| And eyes of a tranquil fire | O |
| Sons of a tameless race | P |
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| Aged mothers bowed with toil | Q |
| Old men bearded and gray are here | R |
| Plants of a stubborn soil | Q |
| That knows not the seed of fear | F |
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| O Mountain mother of men that bearest | N |
| Heroes foster mother of fame | S |
| I hail thee well thou wearest | N |
| Thy dark invincible name | S |
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| Thou plantest the footstep firm and the heart | N |
| In the breast strengthenest hardy to try | T |
| Peril and play its part | N |
| With full unwavering eye | T |
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| At mighty breasts of the ancient hills | U |
| Nourished thy sons in their veins yet keep | V |
| The force that feeds and fills | U |
| Torrents to dance and leap | V |
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| Trees that with clench d root possess | W |
| Their rocky beds oak and pine | X |
| Alone thou endurest nor less | W |
| Permittest in children of thine | X |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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