Delphic Hymn To Apollo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEECC FGCCHHCCIIJJCCCCEECC KKCCLM| B C | A |
| Done into English | B |
| - | |
| I | - |
| Thee the son of God most high | - |
| Famed for harping song will I | - |
| Proclaim and the deathless oracular word | C |
| From the snow topped rock that we gaze on heard | C |
| Counsels of thy glorious giving | D |
| Manifest for all men living | D |
| How thou madest the tripod of prophecy thine | E |
| Which the wrath of the dragon kept guard on a shrine | E |
| Voiceless till thy shafts could smite | C |
| All his live coiled glittering might | C |
| - | |
| II | - |
| Ye that hold of right alone | F |
| All deep woods on Helicon | G |
| Fair daughters of thunder girt God with your bright | C |
| White arms uplift as to lighten the light | C |
| Come to chant your brother's praise | H |
| Gold haired Phoebus loud in lays | H |
| Even his who afar up the twin topped seat | C |
| Of the rock Parnassian whereon we meet | C |
| Risen with glorious Delphic maids | I |
| Seeks the soft spring sweetened shades | I |
| Castalian fain of the Delphian peak | J |
| Prophetic sublime as the feet that seek | J |
| Glorious Athens highest of state | C |
| Come with praise and prayer elate | C |
| O thou that art queen of the plain unscarred | C |
| That the warrior Tritonid hath alway in guard | C |
| Where on many a sacred shrine | E |
| Young bulls' thigh bones burn and shine | E |
| As the god that is fire overtakes them and fast | C |
| The smoke of Arabia to heavenward is cast | C |
| Scattering wide its balm and shrill | K |
| Now with nimble notes that thrill | K |
| The flute strikes up for the song and the harp of gold | C |
| Strikes up to the song sweet answer and all behold | C |
| All aswarm as bees give ear | L |
| Who by birth hold Athens dear | M |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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