Zermat: To The Matterhorn (june-july, 1897) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CDCDCDThirty 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 |
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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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