The Eruption Of Vesuvius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BCDDE FGFGGHH DDDDDII JKLKKKK MDMDNN IOIOOPP D| Quand longtemps a grond la bouche du V suve | A |
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| I vii | A |
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| When huge Vesuvius in its torment long | B |
| Threatening has growled its cavernous jaws among | C |
| When its hot lava like the bubbling wine | D |
| Foaming doth all its monstrous edge incarnadine | D |
| Then is alarm in Naples | E |
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| With dismay | F |
| Wanton and wild her weeping thousands pour | G |
| Convulsive grasp the ground its rage to stay | F |
| Implore the angry Mount in vain implore | G |
| For lo a column tow'ring more and more | G |
| Of smoke and ashes from the burning crest | H |
| Shoots like a vulture's neck reared from its airy nest | H |
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| Sudden a flash and from th' enormous den | D |
| Th' eruption's lurid mass bursts forth amain | D |
| Bounding in frantic ecstasy Ah then | D |
| Farewell to Grecian fount and Tuscan fane | D |
| Sails in the bay imbibe the purpling stain | D |
| The while the lava in profusion wide | I |
| Flings o'er the mountain's neck its showery locks untied | I |
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| It comes it comes that lava deep and rich | J |
| That dower which fertilizes fields and fills | K |
| New moles upon the waters bay and beach | L |
| Broad sea and clustered isles one terror thrills | K |
| As roll the red inexorable rills | K |
| While Naples trembles in her palaces | K |
| More helpless than the leaves when tempests shake the trees | K |
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| Prodigious chaos streets in ashes lost | M |
| Dwellings devoured and vomited again | D |
| Roof against neighbor roof bewildered tossed | M |
| The waters boiling and the burning plain | D |
| While clang the giant steeples as they reel | N |
| Unprompted their own tocsin peal | N |
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| Yet 'mid the wreck of cities and the pride | I |
| Of the green valleys and the isles laid low | O |
| The crash of walls the tumult waste and wide | I |
| O'er sea and land 'mid all this work of woe | O |
| Vesuvius still though close its crater glow | O |
| Forgetful spares Heaven wills that it should spare | P |
| The lonely cell where kneels an aged priest in prayer | P |
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| Fraser's Magazine | D |
Victor-marie Hugo
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