The Beacon Fires Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEEFAEGHIHHHJ JAKLLA MMNLOOPPBQQBQQRRDDQQ STTUUS| A GLEAM a gleam from Ida's height | A |
| By the Fire god sent it came | B |
| From watch to watch it leapt that light | A |
| As a rider rode the flame | B |
| It shot through the startled sky | C |
| And the torch of that blazing glory | D |
| Old Lemnos caught on high | C |
| On its holy promontory | D |
| And sent it on the jocund sign | E |
| To Athos Mount of Jove divine | E |
| Wildly the while it rose from the isle | F |
| So that the might of the journeying Light | A |
| Skimmed over the back of the gleaming brine | E |
| Farther and faster speeds it on | G |
| Till the watch that keeps Macistus steep | H |
| See it burst like a blazing Sun | I |
| Doth Macistus sleep | H |
| On his tower clad steep | H |
| No rapid and red doth the wild fire sweep | H |
| It flashes afar on the wayward stream | J |
| Of the wild Euripus the rushing beam | J |
| It rouses the light on Messapion's height | A |
| And they feed its breath with the withered heath | K |
| But it may not stay | L |
| And away away | L |
| It bounds in its freshening might | A |
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| Silent and soon | M |
| Like a broadened moon | M |
| It passes in sheen Asopus green | N |
| And bursts on Cithaeron gray | L |
| The warder wakes to the Signal rays | O |
| And it swoops from the hill with a broader blaze | O |
| On on the fiery Glory rode | P |
| Thy lonely lake Gorgopis glowed | P |
| To Megara's Mount it came | B |
| They feed it again | Q |
| And it streams amain | Q |
| A giant beard of Flame | B |
| The headland cliffs that darkly down | Q |
| O'er the Saronic waters frown | Q |
| Are passed with the Swift One's lurid stride | R |
| And the huge rock glares on the glaring tide | R |
| With mightier march and fiercer power | D |
| It gained Arachne's neighboring tower | D |
| Thence on our Argive roof its rest it won | Q |
| Of Ida's fire the long descended Son | Q |
| Bright Harbinger of glory and of joy | S |
| So first and last with equal honor crowned | T |
| In solemn feasts the race torch circles round | T |
| And these my heralds this my SIGN OF PEACE | U |
| Lo while we breathe the victor lords of Greece | U |
| Stalk in stern tumult through the halls of Troy | S |
Aeschylus
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