The Fall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL MMNNAAOOPPQQ| Down down down ten thousand fathoms deep | A |
| Count Fathom | B |
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| Who does not know that dreadful gulf where Niagara falls | C |
| Where eagle unto eagle screams to vulture vulture calls | C |
| Where down beneath Despair and Death in liquid darkness grope | D |
| And upward on the foam there shines a rainbow without Hope | D |
| While hung with clouds of Fear and Doubt the unreturning wave | E |
| Suddenly gives an awful plunge like life into the grave | E |
| And many a hapless mortal there hath dived to bale or bliss | F |
| One only one hath ever lived to rise from that abyss | F |
| Oh Heav'n it turns me now to ice with chill of fear extreme | G |
| To think of my frail bark adrift on that tumultuous stream | G |
| In vain with desperate sinews strung by love of life and light | H |
| I urged that coffin my canoe against the current's might | H |
| On on still on direct for doom the river rush'd in force | I |
| And fearfully the stream of Time raced with it in its course | I |
| My eyes I closed I dared not look the way towards the goal | J |
| But still I viewed the horrid close and dreamt it in my soul | J |
| Plainly as through transparent lids I saw the fleeting shore | K |
| And lofty trees like wing d things flit by for evermore | K |
| Plainly but with no prophet sense I heard the sullen sound | L |
| The torrent's voice and felt the mist like death sweat gathering round | L |
| Oh agony Oh life My home and those that made it sweet | M |
| Ere I could pray the torrent lay beneath my very feet | M |
| With frightful whirl more swift than thought I passed the dizzy edge | N |
| Bound after bound with hideous bruise I dashed from ledge to ledge | N |
| From crag to crag in speechless pain from midnight deep to deep | A |
| I did not die but anguish stunn'd my senses into sleep | A |
| How long entranced or whither dived no clue I have to find | O |
| At last the gradual light of life came dawning o'er my mind | O |
| And through my brain there thrill'd a cry a cry as shrill as birds | P |
| Of vulture or of eagle kind but this was set to words | P |
| It's Edgar Huntley in his cap and nightgown I declares | Q |
| He's been a walking in his sleep and pitch'd all down the stairs | Q |
Thomas Hood
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