Å?none Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIIJKLMNIOPDQ R STUIVWIXYZA2 STIIB2C2ID2IE2F2 STIG2DITV TTTIAH2AIITI2 TJ2TTK2L2M2L2L2TI TL2TIL2TN2ITK2O2L2T TTII2AAM2IL2L2IA TTTTP2IITM2TM2L2AM2Q 2M2 TAM2TITIL2L2ATII TTATIATTR2T M2AS2M2AT TIIT2TTAAITIIAM2M2TI TI TTM2ITATTU2IT TITI AV2AThere lies a vale in Ida lovelier | A |
Than all the valleys of Ionian hills | B |
The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen | C |
Puts forth an arm and creeps from pine to pine | D |
And loiters slowly drawn On either hand | E |
The lawns and meadow ledges midway down | F |
Hang rich in flowers and far below them roars | G |
The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine | H |
In cataract after cataract to the sea | I |
Behind the valley topmost Gargarus | I |
Stands up and takes the morning but in front | J |
The gorges opening wide apart reveal | K |
Troas and Ilion's column'd citadel | L |
The crown of Troas Hither came at noon | M |
Mournful none wandering forlorn | N |
Of Paris once her playmate on the hills | I |
Her cheek had lost the rose and round her neck | O |
Floated her hair or seem'd to float in rest | P |
She leaning on a fragment twined with vine | D |
Sang to the stillness till the mountain shade | Q |
Sloped downward to her seat from the upper cliff | R |
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'O mother Ida many fountain'd Ida | S |
Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
For now the noonday quiet holds the hill | U |
The grasshopper is silent in the grass | I |
The lizard with his shadow on the stone | V |
Rests like a shadow and the winds are dead | W |
The purple flower droops the golden bee | I |
Is lily cradled I alone awake | X |
My eyes are full of tears my heart of love | Y |
My heart is breaking and my eyes are dim | Z |
And I am all aweary of my life | A2 |
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'O mother Ida many fountain'd Ida | S |
Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
Hear me O Earth hear me O Hills O Caves | I |
That house the cold crown'd snake O mountain brooks | I |
I am the daughter of a River God | B2 |
Hear me for I will speak and build up all | C2 |
My sorrow with my song as yonder walls | I |
Rose slowly to a music slowly breathed | D2 |
A cloud that gather'd shape for it may be | I |
That while I speak of it a little while | E2 |
My heart may wander from its deeper woe | F2 |
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'O mother Ida many fountain'd Ida | S |
Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
I waited underneath the dawning hills | I |
Aloft the mountain lawn was dewy dark | G2 |
And dewy dark aloft the mountain pine | D |
Beautiful Paris evil hearted Paris | I |
Leading a jet black goat white horn'd white hooved | T |
Came up from reedy Simois all alone | V |
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'O mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
Far off the torrent call'd me from the cleft | T |
Far up the solitary morning smote | T |
The streaks of virgin snow With down dropt eyes | I |
I sat alone white breasted like a star | A |
Fronting the dawn he moved a leopard skin | H2 |
Droop'd from his shoulder but his sunny hair | A |
Cluster'd about his temples like a God's | I |
And his cheek brighten'd as the foam bow brightens | I |
When the wind blows the foam and all my heart | T |
Went forth to embrace him coming ere he came | I2 |
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'Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
He smiled and opening out his milk white palm | J2 |
Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold | T |
That smelt ambrosially and while I look'd | T |
And listen'd the full flowing river of speech | K2 |
Came down upon my heart My own none | L2 |
Beautiful brow'd none my own soul | M2 |
Behold this fruit whose gleaming rind ingrav'n | L2 |
'For the most fair ' would seem to award it thine | L2 |
As lovelier than whatever Oread haunt | T |
The knolls of Ida loveliest in all grace | I |
Of movement and the charm of married brows ' | - |
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'Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
He prest the blossom of his lips to mine | L2 |
And added 'This was cast upon the board | T |
When all the full faced presence of the Gods | I |
Ranged in the halls of Peleus whereupon | L2 |
Rose feud with question unto whom 'twere due | T |
But light foot Iris brought it yester eve | N2 |
Delivering that to me by common voice | I |
Elected umpire Her comes to day | T |
Pallas and Aphrodit claiming each | K2 |
This meed of fairest Thou within the cave | O2 |
Behind yon whispering tuft of oldest pine | L2 |
Mayst well behold them unbeheld unheard | T |
Hear all and see thy Paris judge of Gods ' | - |
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'Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
It was the deep midnoon one silvery cloud | T |
Had lost his way between the piney sides | I |
Of this long glen Then to the bower they came | I2 |
Naked they came to that smooth swarded bower | A |
And at their feet the crocus brake like fire | A |
Violet amaracus and asphodel | M2 |
Lotos and lilies and a wind arose | I |
And overhead the wandering ivy and vine | L2 |
This way and that in many a wild festoon | L2 |
Ran riot garlanding the gnarled boughs | I |
With bunch and berry and flower thro' and thro' | A |
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'O mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
On the tree tops a crested peacock lit | T |
And o'er him flow'd a golden cloud and lean'd | T |
Upon him slowly dropping fragrant dew | T |
Then first I heard the voice of her to whom | P2 |
Coming thro' Heaven like a light that grows | I |
Larger and clearer with one mind the Gods | I |
Rise up for reverence She to Paris made | T |
Proffer of royal power ample rule | M2 |
Unquestion'd overflowing revenue | T |
Wherewith to embellish state 'from many a vale | M2 |
And river sunder'd champaign clothed with corn | L2 |
Or labour'd mine undrainable of ore | A |
Honour ' she said 'and homage tax and toll | M2 |
From many an inland town and haven large | Q2 |
Mast throng'd beneath her shadowing citadel | M2 |
In glassy bays among her tallest towers ' | - |
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'O mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
Still she spake on and still she spake of power | A |
'Which in all action is the end of all | M2 |
Power fitted to the season wisdom bred | T |
And throned of wisdom from all neighbour crowns | I |
Alliance and allegiance till thy hand | T |
Fail from the sceptre staff Such boon from me | I |
From me Heaven's Queen Paris to thee king born | L2 |
A shepherd all thy life but yet king born | L2 |
Should come most welcome seeing men in power | A |
Only are likest Gods who have attain'd | T |
Rest in a happy place and quiet seats | I |
Above the thunder with undying bliss | I |
In knowledge of their own supremacy ' | - |
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'Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
She ceased and Paris held the costly fruit | T |
Out at arm's length so much the thought of power | A |
Flatter'd his spirit but Pallas where she stood | T |
Somewhat apart her clear and bared limbs | I |
O'erthwarted with the brazen headed spear | A |
Upon her pearly shoulder leaning cold | T |
The while above her full and earnest eye | T |
Over her snow cold breast and angry cheek | R2 |
Kept watch waiting decision made reply | T |
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' Self reverence self knowledge self control | M2 |
These three alone lead life to sovereign power | A |
Yet not for power power of herself | S2 |
Would come uncall'd for but to live by law | M2 |
Acting the law we live by without fear | A |
And because right is right to follow right | T |
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence ' | - |
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'Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
Again she said 'I woo thee not with gifts | I |
Sequel of guerdon could not alter me | I |
To fairer Judge thou me by what I am | T2 |
So shalt thou find me fairest Yet indeed | T |
If gazing on divinity disrobed | T |
Thy mortal eyes are frail to judge of fair | A |
Unbias'd by self profit oh rest thee sure | A |
That I shall love thee well and cleave to thee | I |
So that my vigour wedded to thy blood | T |
Shall strike within thy pulses like a God's | I |
To push thee forward thro' a life of shocks | I |
Dangers and deeds until endurance grow | A |
Sinew'd with action and the full grown will | M2 |
Circled thro' all experiences pure law | M2 |
Commeasure perfect freedom ' Here she ceas'd | T |
And Paris ponder'd and I cried 'O Paris | I |
Give it to Pallas ' but he heard me not | T |
Or hearing would not hear me woe is me | I |
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'O mother Ida many fountain'd Ida | T |
Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
Italian Aphrodit beautiful | M2 |
Fresh as the foam new bathed in Paphian wells | I |
With rosy slender fingers backward drew | T |
From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair | A |
Ambrosial golden round her lucid throat | T |
And shoulder from the violets her light foot | T |
Shone rosy white and o'er her rounded form | U2 |
Between the shadows of the vine bunches | I |
Floated the glowing sunlights as she moved | T |
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'Dear mother Ida harken ere I die | T |
She with a subtle smile in her mild eyes | I |
The herald of her triumph drawing nigh | T |
Half whisper'd in his ear 'I promise thee | I |
The fairest and most loving wife in Greece ' | - |
She spoke and laugh'd I shut my sight for fear | A |
But when I look'd Paris had raised his arm | V2 |
And I beheld great Her | A |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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