Colonus'(oed. Col., 667-705.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBBDDB EEFGGF A HIIHHIIH JKJKJK| I | A |
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| Here be the fairest homes the land can show | B |
| The silvery cliffed Colonus always here | C |
| The nightingale doth haunt and singeth clear | D |
| For well the deep green gardens doth she know | B |
| Groves of the God where winds may never blow | B |
| Nor men may tread nor noontide sun may peer | D |
| Among the myriad berried ivy dear | D |
| Where Dionysus wanders to and fro | B |
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| For here he loves to dwell and here resort | E |
| These Nymphs that are his nurses and his court | E |
| And golden eyed beneath the dewy boughs | F |
| The crocus burns and the narcissus fair | G |
| Clusters his blooms to crown thy clustered hair | G |
| Demeter and to wreathe the Maiden's brows | F |
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| II | A |
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| Yea here the dew of Heaven upon the grain | H |
| Fails never nor the ceaseless water spring | I |
| Near neighbour of Cephisus wandering | I |
| That day by day revisiteth the plain | H |
| Nor do the Goddesses the grove disdain | H |
| But chiefly here the Muses quire and sing | I |
| And here they love to weave their dancing ring | I |
| With Aphrodite of the golden rein | H |
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| And here there springs a plant that knoweth not | J |
| The Asian mead nor that great Dorian isle | K |
| Unsown untilled within our garden plot | J |
| It dwells the grey leaved olive ne'er shall guile | K |
| Nor force of foemen root it from the spot | J |
| Zeus and Athene guarding it the while | K |
Andrew Lang
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