Song Of The Furies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEFEEF GHHIJJKG BLLBMM NOPQORR STPUTVV| Up and lead the dance of Fate | A |
| Lift the song that mortals hate | A |
| Tell what rights are ours on earth | B |
| Over all of human birth | B |
| Swift of foot to avenge are we | C |
| He whose hands are clean and pure | D |
| Naught our wrath to dread hath he | C |
| Calm his cloudless days endure | D |
| But the man that seeks to hide | E |
| Like him his gore bedew d hands | F |
| Witnesses to them that died | E |
| The blood avengers at his side | E |
| The Furies' troop forever stands | F |
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| O'er our victim come begin | G |
| Come the incantation sing | H |
| Frantic all and maddening | H |
| To the heart a brand of fire | I |
| The Furies' hymn | J |
| That which claims the senses dim | J |
| Tuneless to the gentle lyre | K |
| Withering the soul within | G |
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| The pride of all of human birth | B |
| All glorious in the eye of day | L |
| Dishonored slowly melts away | L |
| Trod down and trampled to the earth | B |
| Whene'er our dark stoled troop advances | M |
| Whene'er our feet lead on the dismal dances | M |
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| For light our footsteps are | N |
| And perfect is our might | O |
| Awful remembrances of guilt and crime | P |
| Implacable to mortal prayer | Q |
| Far from the gods unhonored and heaven's light | O |
| We hold our voiceless dwellings dread | R |
| All unapproached by living or by dead | R |
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| What mortal feels not awe | S |
| Nor trembles at our name | T |
| Hearing our fate appointed power sublime | P |
| Fixed by the eternal law | U |
| For old our office and our fame | T |
| Might never yet of its due honors fail | V |
| Though 'neath the earth our realm in unsunned regions pale | V |
Aeschylus
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