Pan The Fallen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE DGHGIJDJ KLFLIMNM OEPEQRSR TUVUOWGW KULUAXWX YZRA2AB2LB2 DLBLC2D2GD2| He wandered into the market | A |
| With pipes and goatish hoof | B |
| He wandered in a grotesque shape | C |
| And no one stood aloof | B |
| For the children crowded round him | D |
| The wives and greybeards too | E |
| To crack their jokes and have their mirth | F |
| And see what Pan would do | E |
| - | |
| The Pan he was they knew him | D |
| Part man but mostly beast | G |
| Who drank and lied and snatched what bones | H |
| Men threw him from their feast | G |
| Who seemed in sin so merry | I |
| So careless in his woe | J |
| That men despised scarce pitied him | D |
| And still would have it so | J |
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| He swelled his pipes and thrilled them | K |
| And drew the silent tear | L |
| He made the gravest clack with mirth | F |
| By his sardonic leer | L |
| He blew his pipes full sweetly | I |
| At their amused demands | M |
| And caught the scornful earth flung pence | N |
| That fell from careless hands | M |
| - | |
| He saw the mob's derision | O |
| And took it kindly too | E |
| And when an epithet was flung | P |
| A coarser back he threw | E |
| But under all the masking | Q |
| Of a brute unseemly part | R |
| I looked and saw a wounded soul | S |
| And a god like breaking heart | R |
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| And back of the elfin music | T |
| The burlesque clownish play | U |
| I knew a wail that the weird pipes made | V |
| A look that was far away | U |
| A gaze into some far heaven | O |
| Whence a soul had fallen down | W |
| But the mob only saw the grotesque beast | G |
| And the antics of the clown | W |
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| For scant flung pence he paid them | K |
| With mirth and elfin play | U |
| Till tired for a time of his antics queer | L |
| They passed and went their way | U |
| Then there in the empty market | A |
| He ate his scanty crust | X |
| And tired face turned to heaven down | W |
| He laid him in the dust | X |
| - | |
| And over his wild strange features | Y |
| A softer light there fell | Z |
| And on his worn earth driven heart | R |
| A peace ineffable | A2 |
| And the moon rose over the market | A |
| But Pan the beast was dead | B2 |
| While Pan the god lay silent there | L |
| With his strange distorted head | B2 |
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| And the people when they found him | D |
| Stood still with awesome fear | L |
| No more they saw the beast's rude hoof | B |
| The furtive clownish leer | L |
| But the lightest in that audience | C2 |
| Went silent from the place | D2 |
| For they knew the look of a god released | G |
| That shone from his dead face | D2 |
William Wilfred Campbell
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