Parnassus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFF A BBGGGGHI A CCCC| I | A |
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| What be those crown'd forms high over the sacred fountain | B |
| Bards that the mighty Muses have raised to the heights of the mountain | B |
| And over the flight of the Ages O Goddesses help me up thither | C |
| Lightning may shrivel the laurel of C sar but mine would not wither | C |
| Steep is the mountain but you you will help me to overcome it | D |
| And stand with my head in the zenith and roll my voice from the summit | E |
| Sounding for ever and ever thro' Earth and her listening nations | F |
| And mixt with the great sphere music of stars and of constellations | F |
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| II | A |
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| What be those two shapes high over the sacred fountain | B |
| Taller than all the Muses and huger than all the mountain | B |
| On those two known peaks they stand ever spreading and heightening | G |
| Poet that evergreen laurel is blasted by more than lightning | G |
| Look in their deep double shadow the crown'd ones all disappearing | G |
| Sing like a bird and be happy nor hope for a deathless hearing | G |
| 'Sounding for ever and ever ' pass on the sight confuses | H |
| These are Astronomy and Geology terrible Muses | I |
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| III | A |
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| If the lips were touch'd with fire from off a pure Pierian altar | C |
| Tho' their music here be mortal need the singer greatly care | C |
| Other songs for other worlds the fire within him would not falter | C |
| Let the golden Iliad vanish Homer here is Homer there | C |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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