Stella Flammarum: An Ode To Halley's Comet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FAFADGDG HIJIKALA IFIFMIAI ENNNINNN AFAFAANA DFDFNOPO| Strange wanderer out of the deeps | A |
| Whence journeying come you | B |
| From what far unsunned sleeps | A |
| Did fate foredoom you | B |
| Returning for ever again | C |
| Through the surgings of man | D |
| A flaming awesome portent of dread | E |
| Down the centuries' span | D |
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| Riddle from the dark unwrung | F |
| By all earth's sages | A |
| God's fiery torch from His hand outflung | F |
| To flame through the ages | A |
| Thou Satan of planets eterne | D |
| 'Mid angry path | G |
| Chained in circlings vast to burn | D |
| Out ancient wrath | G |
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| By what dread hand first loosed | H |
| From fires eternal | I |
| With majesties dire infused | J |
| Of force supernal | I |
| Takest thy headlong way | K |
| O'er the highways of space | A |
| O wonderful blossoming flower of fear | L |
| On the sky's far face | A |
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| What secret of destiny's will | I |
| In thy wild burning | F |
| What portent dire of humanity's ill | I |
| In thy returning | F |
| Or art thou brand of love | M |
| In masking of bale | I |
| And bringest thou ever some mystical surcease | A |
| For all who wail | I |
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| Perchance O Visitor dread | E |
| Thou hast thine appointed | N |
| Task thou bolt of the vast outsped | N |
| With God's anointed | N |
| Performest some endless toil | I |
| In the universe wide | N |
| Feeding or curing some infinite need | N |
| Where the vast worlds ride | N |
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| Once only once thy face | A |
| Will I view in this breathing | F |
| Just for a space thy majesty trace | A |
| 'Mid earth's mad seething | F |
| Ere I go hence to my place | A |
| As thou to thy deeps | A |
| Thou flambent core of a universe dread | N |
| Where all else sleeps | A |
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| But thou and man's spirit are one | D |
| Thou poet thou flaming | F |
| Soul of the dauntless sun | D |
| Past all reclaiming | F |
| One in that red unrest | N |
| That yearning that surge | O |
| That mounting surf of the infinite dream | P |
| O'er eternity's verge | O |
William Wilfred Campbell
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