Actæon 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEBBFCBGABGBGDBF FHCADIJGHICAG| Over a mountain slope with lentisk and with abounding | A |
| Arbutus and the red oak overtufted 'mid a noontide | B |
| Now glowing fervidly the Leto born the divine one | C |
| Artemis Arcadian wood rover alone hunt weary | D |
| Unto a dell cent'ring many streamlets her foot unerring | A |
| Had guided Platanus with fig tree shaded a hollow | E |
| Shaded a waterfall where pellucid yet abundant | B |
| Streams from perpetual full flowing sources a current | B |
| Lower on either bank in sunshine flowered the oleanders | F |
| Plenteous under a rock green herbage here to the margin | C |
| Grew with white poplars overcrowning She thither arrived | B |
| Unloosening joyfully the vest enfolded upon her | G |
| Swift her divine shoulders discovering swiftly revealing | A |
| Her maidenly bosom and all her beauty beneath it | B |
| To the river water overflowing to receive her | G |
| Yielded her ambrosial nakedness But with an instant | B |
| Conscious with the instant the' immortal terrific anger | G |
| Flew to the guilty doer that moment where amid amply | D |
| Concealing plane leaves he the' opportunity pursued | B |
| Long vainly possessed unwise Act on of hunters | F |
| Hapless of Arcadian and most misguided of hunters | F |
| Knew the divine mandate knew fate directed upon him | H |
| He to the boughs crouching with dreadful joy the desired one | C |
| Had viewed descending viewed as in a dream disarraying | A |
| And the unclad shoulders awestruck awestruck let his eyes see | D |
| The maidenly bosom but not dim fear fell upon them | I |
| Not more had witnessed Not therefore less the forest through | J |
| Ranging their master ceasing thenceforth to remember | G |
| With the instant together came trooping as to devour him | H |
| His dogs from the ambush Transformed suddenly before them | I |
| He fled an antlered stag wild with terror to the mountain | C |
| She the liquid stream in her limbs carelessly reclining | A |
| The flowing waters collected grateful about her | G |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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