Tithonus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNEOPQERSSTUVWXYZA 2A B2JC2D2E2F2G2HH2I2J2 K2L2M2 WN2O2P2 Q2H2R2S2T2U2AYV2W2X2 Y2Z2A3 IG2B3Y2HC3D3E3BF3JG3 C2| The woods decay the woods decay and fall | A |
| The vapours weep their burthen to the ground | B |
| Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath | C |
| And after many a summer dies the swan | D |
| Me only cruel immortality | E |
| Consumes I wither slowly in thine arms | F |
| Here at the quiet limit of the world | G |
| A white hair'd shadow roaming like a dream | H |
| The ever silent spaces of the East | I |
| Far folded mists and gleaming halls of morn | J |
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| Alas for this gray shadow once a man | K |
| So glorious in his beauty and thy choice | L |
| Who madest him thy chosen that he seem'd | M |
| To his great heart none other than a God | N |
| I ask'd thee Give me immortality | E |
| Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile | O |
| Like wealthy men who care not how they give | P |
| But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills | Q |
| And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me | E |
| And tho' they could not end me left me maim'd | R |
| To dwell in presence of immortal youth | S |
| Immortal age beside immortal youth | S |
| And all I was in ashes Can thy love | T |
| Thy beauty make amends tho' even now | U |
| Close over us the silver star thy guide | V |
| Shines in those tremulous eyes that fill with tears | W |
| To hear me Let me go take back thy gift | X |
| Why should a man desire in any way | Y |
| To vary from the kindly race of men | Z |
| Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance | A2 |
| Where all should pause as is most meet for all | A |
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| A soft air fans the cloud apart there comes | B2 |
| A glimpse of that dark world where I was born | J |
| Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals | C2 |
| From any pure brows and from thy shoulders pure | D2 |
| And bosom beating with a heart renew'd | E2 |
| Thy cheek begins to redden thro' the gloom | F2 |
| Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine | G2 |
| Ere yet they blind the stars and the wild team | H |
| Which love thee yearning for thy yoke arise | H2 |
| And shake the darkness from their loosen'd manes | I2 |
| And beat the twilight into flakes of fire | J2 |
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| Lo ever thus thou growest beautiful | K2 |
| In silence then before thine answer given | L2 |
| Departest and thy tears are on my cheek | M2 |
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| Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears | W |
| And make me tremble lest a saying learnt | N2 |
| In days far off on that dark earth be true | O2 |
| The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts | P2 |
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| Ay me ay me with what another heart | Q2 |
| In days far off and with what other eyes | H2 |
| I used to watch if I be he that watch'd | R2 |
| The lucid outline forming round thee saw | S2 |
| The dim curls kindle into sunny rings | T2 |
| Changed with thy mystic change and felt my blood | U2 |
| Glow with the glow that slowly crimson'd all | A |
| Thy presence and thy portals while I lay | Y |
| Mouth forehead eyelids growing dewy warm | V2 |
| With kisses balmier than half opening buds | W2 |
| Of April and could hear the lips that kiss'd | X2 |
| Whispering I knew not what of wild and sweet | Y2 |
| Like that strange song I heard Apollo sing | Z2 |
| While Ilion like a mist rose into towers | A3 |
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| Yet hold me not for ever in thine East | I |
| How can my nature longer mix with thine | G2 |
| Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me cold | B3 |
| Are all thy lights and cold my wrinkled feet | Y2 |
| Upon thy glimmering thresholds when the steam | H |
| Floats up from those dim fields about the homes | C3 |
| Of happy men that have the power to die | D3 |
| And grassy barrows of the happier dead | E3 |
| Release me and restore me to the ground | B |
| Thou se e st all things thou wilt see my grave | F3 |
| Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn | J |
| I earth in earth forget these empty courts | G3 |
| And thee returning on thy silver wheels | C2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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