The Enviable Isles
Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
_From 'Rammon.'_
Through storms you reach them and from
storms are free.
Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,
But, nearer, green; and, on the marge, the sea
Makes thunder low and mist of rainbowed
dew.
But, inland, where the sleep that folds the hills
A dreamier sleep, the trance of God, instills--
On uplands hazed, in wandering airs
aswoon,
Slow-swaying palms salute love's cypress tree
Adown in vale where pebbly runlets croon
A song to lull all sorrow and all glee.
Sweet-fern and moss in many a glade are here.
Where, strewn in flocks, what cheek-flushed
myriads lie
Dimpling in dream--unconscious slumberers
mere,
While billows endless round the beaches die.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABACB DDXEAEA XCXDXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 114 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 6 |
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