A Prayer For Artemis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBC A BDBBD A EFFDED A GAAGHH A IJKJLLMMNN A BOKOLLMMNN A PPAAAQQOAO A ROROOO OAO| STROPHE IV | A |
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| Though Zeus plan all things right | B |
| Yet is his heart's desire full hard to trace | C |
| Nathless in every place | C |
| Brightly it gleameth e'en in darkest night | B |
| Fraught with black fate to man's speech gifted race | C |
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| ANTISTROPHE IV | A |
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| Steadfast ne'er thrown in fight | B |
| The deed in brow of Zeus to ripeness brought | D |
| For wrapt in shadowy night | B |
| Tangled unscanned by mortal sight | B |
| Extend the pathways of his secret thought | D |
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| STROPHE V | A |
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| From towering hopes mortals he hurleth prone | E |
| To utter doom but for their fall | F |
| No force arrayeth he for all | F |
| That gods devise is without effort wrought | D |
| A mindful Spirit aloft on holy throne | E |
| By inborn energy achieves his thought | D |
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| ANTISTROPHE V | A |
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| But let him mortal insolence behold | G |
| How with proud contumacy rife | A |
| Wantons the stem in lusty life | A |
| My marriage craving frenzy over bold | G |
| Spur ever pricking goads them on to fate | H |
| By ruin taught their folly all too late | H |
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| STROPHE VI | A |
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| Thus I complain in piteous strain | I |
| Grief laden tear evoking shrill | J |
| Ah woe is me woe woe | K |
| Dirge like it sounds mine own death trill | J |
| I pour yet breathing vital air | L |
| Hear hill crowned Apia hear my prayer | L |
| Full well O land | M |
| My voice barbaric thou canst understand | M |
| While oft with rendings I assail | N |
| My byssine vesture and Sidonian veil | N |
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| ANTISTROPHE VI | A |
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| My nuptial right in Heaven's pure sight | B |
| Pollution were death laden rude | O |
| Ah woe is me woe woe | K |
| Alas for sorrow's murky brood | O |
| Where will this billow hurl me Where | L |
| Hear hill crowned Apia hear my prayer | L |
| Full well O land | M |
| My voice barbaric thou canst understand | M |
| While oft with rendings I assail | N |
| My byssine vesture and Sidonian veil | N |
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| STROPHE VII | A |
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| The oar indeed and home with sails | P |
| Flax tissued swelled with favoring gales | P |
| Staunch to the wave from spear storm free | A |
| Have to this shore escorted me | A |
| Nor so far blame I destiny | A |
| But may the all seeing Father send | Q |
| In fitting time propitious end | Q |
| So our dread Mother's mighty brood | O |
| The lordly couch may 'scape ah me | A |
| Unwedded unsubdued | O |
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| ANTISTROPHE VII | A |
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| Meeting my will with will divine | R |
| Daughter of Zeus who here dost hold | O |
| Steadfast thy sacred shrine | R |
| Me Artemis unstained behold | O |
| Do thou who sovereign might dost wield | O |
| Virgin thyself a virgin shield | O |
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| So our dread Mother's mighty brood | O |
| The lordly couch may 'scape ah me | A |
| Unwedded unsubdued | O |
Aeschylus
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