Niobe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDECDE FGFGHIJHIJ KLKLMNOMNO GPGPCBQCBQ| How like the sky she bends above her child | A |
| One with the great horizon of her pain | B |
| No sob from our low seas where woe runs wild | A |
| No weeping cloud no momentary rain | B |
| Can mar the heaven high visage of her grief | C |
| That frozen anguish proud majestic dumb | D |
| She stoops in pity above the labouring earth | E |
| Knowing how fond how brief | C |
| Is all its hope past present and to come | D |
| She stoops in pity and yearns to assuage its dearth | E |
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| Through that fair face the whole dark universe | F |
| Speaks as a thorn tree speaks thro one white flower | G |
| And all those wrenched Promethean souls that curse | F |
| The gods but cannot die before their hour | G |
| Find utterance in her beauty That fair head | H |
| Bows over all earth s graves It was her cry | I |
| Men heard in Rama when the twisted ways | J |
| With children s blood ran red | H |
| Her silence towers to Silences on high | I |
| And in her face the whole earth s anguish prays | J |
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| It is the pity the pity of human love | K |
| That strains her face upturned to meet the doom | L |
| And her deep bosom like a snow white dove | K |
| Frozen upon its nest ne er to resume | L |
| Its happy breathing o er the golden brace | M |
| That she must shield till death Death death alone | N |
| Can break the anguished horror of that spell | O |
| The sorrow on her face | M |
| Is sealed the living flesh is turned to stone | N |
| She knows all all that Life and Time can tell | O |
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| Ah yet her woman s love so vast so tender | G |
| Her woman s body hurt by every dart | P |
| Braving the thunder still still hide the slender | G |
| Soft frightened child beneath her mighty heart | P |
| She is all one mute immortal cry one brief | C |
| Infinite pang of such victorious pain | B |
| That she transcends the heavens and bows them down | Q |
| The majesty of grief | C |
| Is hers and her dominion must remain | B |
| Eternal Grief alone can wear that crown | Q |
Alfred Noyes
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