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 JCJC| Oh 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| Nor darkness withdrawn | C |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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