Rhymes And Rhythms - Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKL MNOPQRSTPI NPUVWPX KYZVA2B2C2Space and dread and the dark | A |
Over a livid stretch of sky | B |
Cloud monsters crawling like a funeral train | C |
Of huge primeval presences | D |
Stooping beneath the weight | E |
Of some enormous rudimentary grief | F |
While in the haunting loneliness | G |
The far sea waits and wanders with a sound | H |
As of the trailing skirts of Destiny | I |
Passing unseen | J |
To some immitigable end | K |
With her grey henchman Death | L |
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What larve what spectre is this | M |
Thrilling the wilderness to life | N |
As with the bodily shape of Fear | O |
What but a desperate sense | P |
A strong foreboding of those dim | Q |
Interminable continents forlorn | R |
And many silenced in a dusk | S |
Inviolable utterly and dead | T |
As the poor dead it huddles and swarms and styes | P |
In hugger mugger through eternity | I |
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Life life let there be life | N |
Better a thousand times the roaring hours | P |
When wave and wind | U |
Like the Arch Murderer in flight | V |
From the Avenger at his heel | W |
Storm through the desolate fastnesses | P |
And wild waste places of the world | X |
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Life give me life until the end | K |
That at the very top of being | Y |
The battle spirit shouting in my blood | Z |
Out of the reddest hell of the fight | V |
I may be snatched and flung | A2 |
Into the everlasting lull | B2 |
The immortal incommunicable dream | C2 |
William Ernest Henley
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