The Sibyl. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKK| A Sketch | A |
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| So stood the Sibyl stream'd her hoary hair | B |
| Wild as the blast and with a comet's glare | B |
| Glow'd her red eye balls 'midst the sunken gloom | C |
| Of their wild orbs like death fires in a tomb | C |
| Slow like the rising storm in fitful moans | D |
| Broke from her breast the deep prophetic tones | D |
| Anon with whirlwind rash the Spirit came | E |
| Then in dire splendour like imprison'd flame | E |
| Flashing through rifted domes or towns amazed | F |
| Her voice in thunder burst her arm she raised | F |
| Outstretch'd her hands as with a Fury's force | G |
| To grasp and launch the slow descending curse | H |
| Still as she spoke her stature seem'd to grow | I |
| Still she denounced unmitigable woe | I |
| Pain want and madness pestilence and death | J |
| Rode forth triumphant at her blasting breath | J |
| Their march she marshall'd taught their ire to fall | K |
| And seem'd herself the emblem of them all | K |
Thomas Gent
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