Grand Chorus Of Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCECFGEGECHCIJKJ CLMLGCNCEEDEEOEODPQP KEDERESPAPEJEJDHNHCG EGIGNTUTEPMPVGNG| Come on then ye dwellers by nature in darkness and like to the | A |
| leaves' generations | B |
| That are little of might that are molded of mire unenduring | C |
| and shadowlike nations | B |
| Poor plumeless ephemerals comfortless mortals as visions of | D |
| shadows fast fleeing | C |
| Lift up your mind unto us that are deathless and dateless the date | E |
| of our being | C |
| Us children of heaven us ageless for aye us all of whose thoughts | F |
| are eternal | G |
| That ye may from henceforth having heard of us all things aright | E |
| as to matters supernal | G |
| Of the being of birds and beginning of gods and of streams and | E |
| the dark beyond reaching | C |
| Trustfully knowing aright in my name bid Prodicus pack with his | H |
| preaching | C |
| It was Chaos and Night at the first and the blackness of darkness | I |
| and Hell's broad border | J |
| Earth was not nor air neither heaven when in depths of the womb | K |
| of the dark without order | J |
| First thing first born of the black plumed Night was a wind egg | C |
| hatched in her bosom | L |
| Whence timely with seasons revolving again sweet Love burst out as | M |
| a blossom | L |
| Gold wings glittering forth of his back like whirlwinds gustily | G |
| turning | C |
| He after his wedlock with Chaos whose wings are of darkness in | N |
| Hell broad burning | C |
| For his nestlings begat him the race of us first and upraised us to | E |
| light new lighted | E |
| And before this was not the race of the gods until all things by Love | D |
| were united | E |
| And of kind united in kind with communion of nature the sky and | E |
| the sea are | O |
| Brought forth and the earth and the race of the gods everlasting and | E |
| blest So that we are | O |
| Far away the most ancient of all things blest And that we are of | D |
| Love's generation | P |
| There are manifest manifold signs We have wings and with us have | Q |
| the Loves habitation | P |
| And manifold fair young folk that forswore love once ere the bloom | K |
| of them ended | E |
| Have the men that pursued and desired them subdued by the help of | D |
| us only befriended | E |
| With such baits as a quail a flamingo a goose or a cock's comb | R |
| staring and splendid | E |
| All best good things that befall men come from us birds as is plain | S |
| to all reason | P |
| For first we proclaim and make known to them spring and the | A |
| winter and autumn in season | P |
| Bid sow when the crane starts clanging for Afric in shrill voiced | E |
| emigrant number | J |
| And calls to the pilot to hang up his rudder again for the season and | E |
| slumber | J |
| And then weave a cloak for Orestes the thief lest he strip men of | D |
| theirs if it freezes | H |
| And again thereafter the kite reappearing announces a change in | N |
| the breezes | H |
| And that here is the season for shearing your sheep of their spring | C |
| wool Then does the swallow | G |
| Give you notice to sell your great coat and provide something light | E |
| for the heat that's to follow | G |
| Thus are we as Ammon or Delphi unto you Dodona nay Phoebus | I |
| Apollo | G |
| For as first ye come all to get auguries of birds even such is in | N |
| all things your carriage | T |
| Be the matter a matter of trade or of earning your bread or of any | U |
| one's marriage | T |
| And all things ye lay to the charge of a bird that belong to | E |
| discerning prediction | P |
| Winged fame is a bird as you reckon you sneeze and the sign's as | M |
| a bird for conviction | P |
| All tokens are 'birds' with you sounds too and lackeys and donkeys | V |
| Then must it not follow | G |
| That we are to you all as the manifest godhead that speaks in | N |
| prophetic Apollo | G |
Aristophanes
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