To Horror Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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GREEK transliteratedA
Tin gar potaeisomaiB
tan chai schuliches tromeontiA
Erchomenan nechuon ana t'aeria chai melan aimaB
TheocritosC
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Dark HORROR hear my callD
Stern Genius hear from thy retreatA
On some old sepulchre's moss cankered seatA
Beneath the Abbey's ivied wallD
That trembles o'er its shadeA
Where wrapt in midnight gloom aloneE
Thou lovest to lie and hearF
The roar of waters nearG
And listen to the deep dull groanE
Of some perturbed spriteA
Borne fitful on the heavy gales of nightA
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Or whether o'er some wide waste hillH
Thou mark'st the traveller strayI
Bewilder'd on his lonely wayI
When loud and keen and chillH
The evening winds of winter blowJ
Drifting deep the dismal snowJ
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Or if thou followest now on Greenland's shoreK
With all thy terrors on the lonely wayI
Of some wrecked mariner when to the roarK
Of herded bears the floating ice hills roundA
Pour their deep echoing soundA
And by the dim drear Boreal lightA
Givest half his dangers to the wretches sightA
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Or if thy fury formB
When o'er the midnight deepL
The dark wing'd tempests sweepL
Watches from some high cliff the encreasing stormB
Listening with strange delightA
As the black billows to the thunder raveM
When by the lightnings lightA
Thou seest the tall ship sink beneath the waveM
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Dark HORROR bear me where the field of fightA
Scatters contagion on the tainted galeN
When to the Moon's faint beamB
On many a carcase shine the dews of nightA
And a dead silence stills the valeN
Save when at times is heard the glutted Raven's screamB
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Where some wreck'd army from the Conquerors mightA
Speed their disastrous flightA
With thee fierce Genius let me trace their wayI
And hear at times the deep heart groanE
Of some poor sufferer left to die aloneE
His sore wounds smarting with the winds of nightA
And we will pause where on the wildA
The Mother to her frozen breastA
On the heap'd snows reclining clasps her childA
And with him sleeps chill'd to eternal restA
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Black HORROR speed we to the bed of DeathO
Where he whose murderous power afarP
Blasts with the myriad plagues of warK
Struggles with his last breathO
Then to his wildly starting eyesC
The phantoms of the murder'd riseC
Then on his frenzied earF
Their groans for vengeance and the Demon's yellQ
In one heart maddening chorus swellQ
Cold on his brow convulsing stands the dewA
And night eternal darkens on his viewA
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HORROR I call thee yet once moreK
Bear me to that accursed shoreK
Where round the stake the impaled Negro writhesC
Assume thy sacred terrors then dispenseC
The blasting gales of PestilenceC
Arouse the race of Afric holy PowerR
Lead them to vengeance and in that dread hourR
When Ruin rages wideA
I will behold and smile by MERCY'S sideA
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Footnote I extract the following picture of consummate horror fromB
the notes to a Poem written in twelve syllable verse upon the campaignS
of and it was during the retreat to DeventerR
We could not proceed a hundred yards without perceiving the dead bodiesC
of men women children and horses in every direction One scene made anT
impression upon my memory which time will never be able to efface NearR
another cart we perceived a stout looking man and a beautiful youngU
woman with an infant about seven months old at the breast all threeR
frozen and dead The mother had most certainly expired in the act ofV
suckling her child as with one breast exposed she lay upon the driftedA
snow the milk to all appearance in a stream drawn from the nipple byW
the babe and instantly congealed The infant seemed as if its lips hadA
but just then been disengaged and it reposed its little head upon theX
mother's bosom with an overflow of milk frozen as it trickled fromB
the mouth their countenances were perfectly composed and freshY
resembling those of persons in a sound and tranquil slumberR

Robert Southey



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