Chorus From 'atalanta' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB CDCDEECD FGFGFFFG FCFCHIFC CJCKFLCK DMDDDDDD NCNCCCNC| WHEN the hounds of spring are on winter's traces | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The mother of months in meadow or plain | B |
| Fills the shadows and windy places | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain | B |
| And the brown bright nightingale amorous | C |
| Is half assuaged for Itylus | C |
| For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The tongueless vigil and all the pain | B |
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| Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Maiden most perfect lady of light | D |
| With a noise of winds and many rivers | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With a clamour of waters and with might | D |
| Bind on thy sandals O thou most fleet | E |
| Over the splendour and speed of thy feet | E |
| For the faint east quickens the wan west shivers | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Round the feet of the day and the feet of the night | D |
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| Where shall we find her how shall we sing to her | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Fold our hands round her knees and cling | G |
| O that man's heart were as fire and could spring to her | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Fire or the strength of the streams that spring | G |
| For the stars and the winds are unto her | F |
| As raiment as songs of the harp player | F |
| For the risen stars and the fallen cling to her | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the southwest wind and the west wind sing | G |
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| For winter's rains and ruins are over | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And all the season of snows and sins | C |
| The days dividing lover and lover | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The light that loses the night that wins | C |
| And time remember'd is grief forgotten | H |
| And frosts are slain and flowers begotten | I |
| And in green underwood and cover | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Blossom by blossom the spring begins | C |
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| The full streams feed on flower of rushes | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Ripe grasses trammel a travelling foot | J |
| The faint fresh flame of the young year flushes | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From leaf to flower and flower to fruit | K |
| And fruit and leaf are as gold and fire | F |
| And the oat is heard above the lyre | L |
| And the hoofed heel of a satyr crushes | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The chestnut husk at the chestnut root | K |
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| And Pan by noon and Bacchus by night | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Fleeter of foot than the fleet foot kid | M |
| Follows with dancing and fills with delight | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The Maenad and the Bassarid | D |
| And soft as lips that laugh and hide | D |
| The laughing leaves of the trees divide | D |
| And screen from seeing and leave in sight | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The god pursuing the maiden hid | D |
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| The ivy falls with the Bacchanal's hair | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Over her eyebrows hiding her eyes | C |
| The wild vine slipping down leaves bare | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Her bright breast shortening into sighs | C |
| The wild vine slips with the weight of its leaves | C |
| But the berried ivy catches and cleaves | C |
| To the limbs that glitter the feet that scare | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The wolf that follows the fawn that flies | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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