Tithonus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGAAHIJJKKLL MMAANNAADDMCOOMMMMMM AAPQCCAARR| So when the verdure of his life was shed | A |
| With all the grace of ripened manlihead | A |
| And on his locks but now so lovable | B |
| Old age like desolating winter fell | C |
| Leaving them white and flowerless and forlorn | D |
| Then from his bed the Goddess of the Morn | D |
| Softly withheld yet cherished him no less | E |
| With pious works of pitying tenderness | F |
| Till when at length with vacant heedless eyes | G |
| And hoary height bent down none otherwise | G |
| Than burdened willows bend beneath their weight | A |
| Of snow when winter winds turn temperate | A |
| So bowed with years when still he lingered on | H |
| Then to the daughter of Hyperion | I |
| This counsel seemed the best for she afar | J |
| By dove gray seas under the morning star | J |
| Where on the wide world's uttermost extremes | K |
| Her amber walled auroral palace gleams | K |
| High in an orient chamber bade prepare | L |
| An everlasting couch and laid him there | L |
| And leaving closed the shining doors But he | M |
| Deathless by Jove's compassionless decree | M |
| Found not as others find a dreamless rest | A |
| There wakeful with half waking dreams oppressed | A |
| Still in an aural visionary haze | N |
| Float round him vanished forms of happier days | N |
| Still at his side he fancies to behold | A |
| The rosy radiant thing beloved of old | A |
| And oft as over dewy meads at morn | D |
| Far inland from a sunrise coast is borne | D |
| The drowsy muffled moaning of the sea | M |
| Even so his voice flows on unceasingly | C |
| Lisping sweet names of passion overblown | O |
| Breaking with dull persistent undertone | O |
| The breathless silence that forever broods | M |
| Round those colossal lustrous solitudes | M |
| Times change Man's fortune prospers or it falls | M |
| Change harbors not in those eternal halls | M |
| And tranquil chamber where Tithonus lies | M |
| But through his window there the eastern skies | M |
| Fall palely fair to the dim ocean's end | A |
| There in blue mist where air and ocean blend | A |
| The lazy clouds that sail the wide world o'er | P |
| Falter and turn where they can sail no more | Q |
| There singing groves there spacious gardens blow | C |
| Cedars and silver poplars row on row | C |
| Through whose black boughs on her appointed night | A |
| Flooding his chamber with enchanted light | A |
| Lifts the full moon's immeasurable sphere | R |
| Crimson and huge and wonderfully near | R |
Alan Seeger
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