Hymn Of The Triumphant Airman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEA CCCC FFFG CHCH ACAC CICI ACAC JAJA AAAA EKEK FAFA JCJCOh long had we paltered | A |
With bridle and girth | B |
Ere those horses were haltered | A |
That gave us the Earth | B |
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Ere the Flame and the Fountain | C |
The Spark and the Wheel | D |
Sank Ocean and Mountain | C |
Alike 'neath our keel | D |
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But the Wind in her blowing | E |
The bird on the wind | A |
Made naught of our going | E |
And left us behind | A |
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Till the gale was outdriven | C |
The gull overflown | C |
And there matched us in Heaven | C |
The Sun God alone | C |
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He only the master | F |
We leagued to o'erthrow | F |
He only the faster | F |
And therefore our foe | G |
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Light steals to uncurtain | C |
The dim shaping skies | H |
That arch and make certain | C |
Where he shall arise | H |
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We lift to the onset | A |
We challenge anew | C |
From sunrise to sunset | A |
Apollo pursue | C |
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What ails thee O Golden | C |
Thy Chariot is still | I |
What Power has withholden | C |
The Way from the Will | I |
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Lo Hesper hath paled not | A |
Nor darkness withdrawn | C |
The Hours have availed not | A |
To lead forth the Dawn | C |
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Do they flinch from full trial | J |
The Coursers of Day | A |
The shade on our dial | J |
Moves swifter than they | A |
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We fleet but thou stayest | A |
A God unreleased | A |
And still thou delayest | A |
Low down in the East | A |
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A beacon faint burning | E |
A glare that decays | K |
As the blasts of our spurning | E |
Blow backward its blaze | K |
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The mid noon grows colder | F |
Night rushes to meet | A |
And the curve of Earth's shoulder | F |
Heaves up thy defeat | A |
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Storm on at that portal | J |
We have thee in prison | C |
Apollo immortal | J |
Thou hast not arisen | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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