Zermat: To The Matterhorn (june-july, 1897) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CDCDCD| Thirty two years since up against the sun | A |
| Seven shapes thin atomies to lower sight | B |
| Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height | B |
| And four lives paid for what the seven had won | A |
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| They were the first by whom the deed was done | A |
| And when I look at thee my mind takes flight | B |
| To that day's tragic feat of manly might | B |
| As though till then of history thou hadst none | A |
| - | |
| Yet ages ere men topped thee late and soon | C |
| Thou watch'dst each night the planets lift and lower | D |
| Thou gleam'dst to Joshua's pausing sun and moon | C |
| And brav'dst the tokening sky when Caesar's power | D |
| Approached its bloody end yea saw'st that Noon | C |
| When darkness filled the earth till the ninth hour | D |
Thomas Hardy
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