To Horror Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DAADAEFGEAA HIIHJJ KIKAAAA BLLBAMAM ANBANB AAIEEAAAAA OPKOCCFQQAA KKCCCRRAA BSRCTRURVAWAXBYRGREEK transliterated | A |
Tin gar potaeisomai | B |
tan chai schuliches tromeonti | A |
Erchomenan nechuon ana t'aeria chai melan aima | B |
Theocritos | C |
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Dark HORROR hear my call | D |
Stern Genius hear from thy retreat | A |
On some old sepulchre's moss cankered seat | A |
Beneath the Abbey's ivied wall | D |
That trembles o'er its shade | A |
Where wrapt in midnight gloom alone | E |
Thou lovest to lie and hear | F |
The roar of waters near | G |
And listen to the deep dull groan | E |
Of some perturbed sprite | A |
Borne fitful on the heavy gales of night | A |
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Or whether o'er some wide waste hill | H |
Thou mark'st the traveller stray | I |
Bewilder'd on his lonely way | I |
When loud and keen and chill | H |
The evening winds of winter blow | J |
Drifting deep the dismal snow | J |
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Or if thou followest now on Greenland's shore | K |
With all thy terrors on the lonely way | I |
Of some wrecked mariner when to the roar | K |
Of herded bears the floating ice hills round | A |
Pour their deep echoing sound | A |
And by the dim drear Boreal light | A |
Givest half his dangers to the wretches sight | A |
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Or if thy fury form | B |
When o'er the midnight deep | L |
The dark wing'd tempests sweep | L |
Watches from some high cliff the encreasing storm | B |
Listening with strange delight | A |
As the black billows to the thunder rave | M |
When by the lightnings light | A |
Thou seest the tall ship sink beneath the wave | M |
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Dark HORROR bear me where the field of fight | A |
Scatters contagion on the tainted gale | N |
When to the Moon's faint beam | B |
On many a carcase shine the dews of night | A |
And a dead silence stills the vale | N |
Save when at times is heard the glutted Raven's scream | B |
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Where some wreck'd army from the Conquerors might | A |
Speed their disastrous flight | A |
With thee fierce Genius let me trace their way | I |
And hear at times the deep heart groan | E |
Of some poor sufferer left to die alone | E |
His sore wounds smarting with the winds of night | A |
And we will pause where on the wild | A |
The Mother to her frozen breast | A |
On the heap'd snows reclining clasps her child | A |
And with him sleeps chill'd to eternal rest | A |
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Black HORROR speed we to the bed of Death | O |
Where he whose murderous power afar | P |
Blasts with the myriad plagues of war | K |
Struggles with his last breath | O |
Then to his wildly starting eyes | C |
The phantoms of the murder'd rise | C |
Then on his frenzied ear | F |
Their groans for vengeance and the Demon's yell | Q |
In one heart maddening chorus swell | Q |
Cold on his brow convulsing stands the dew | A |
And night eternal darkens on his view | A |
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HORROR I call thee yet once more | K |
Bear me to that accursed shore | K |
Where round the stake the impaled Negro writhes | C |
Assume thy sacred terrors then dispense | C |
The blasting gales of Pestilence | C |
Arouse the race of Afric holy Power | R |
Lead them to vengeance and in that dread hour | R |
When Ruin rages wide | A |
I will behold and smile by MERCY'S side | A |
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Footnote I extract the following picture of consummate horror from | B |
the notes to a Poem written in twelve syllable verse upon the campaign | S |
of and it was during the retreat to Deventer | R |
We could not proceed a hundred yards without perceiving the dead bodies | C |
of men women children and horses in every direction One scene made an | T |
impression upon my memory which time will never be able to efface Near | R |
another cart we perceived a stout looking man and a beautiful young | U |
woman with an infant about seven months old at the breast all three | R |
frozen and dead The mother had most certainly expired in the act of | V |
suckling her child as with one breast exposed she lay upon the drifted | A |
snow the milk to all appearance in a stream drawn from the nipple by | W |
the babe and instantly congealed The infant seemed as if its lips had | A |
but just then been disengaged and it reposed its little head upon the | X |
mother's bosom with an overflow of milk frozen as it trickled from | B |
the mouth their countenances were perfectly composed and fresh | Y |
resembling those of persons in a sound and tranquil slumber | R |
Robert Southey
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