Sappho Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLAMNOCPQR ESTUVEWXYHZA2B2A2C2D 2 Y E2| She lay among the myrtles on the cliff | A |
| Above her glared the noon beneath the sea | B |
| Upon the white horizon Atho's peak | C |
| Weltered in burning haze all airs were dead | D |
| The cicale slept among the tamarisk's hair | E |
| The birds sat dumb and drooping Far below | F |
| The lazy sea weed glistened in the sun | G |
| The lazy sea fowl dried their steaming wings | H |
| The lazy swell crept whispering up the ledge | I |
| And sank again Great Pan was laid to rest | J |
| And Mother Earth watched by him as he slept | K |
| And hushed her myriad children for a while | L |
| She lay among the myrtles on the cliff | A |
| And sighed for sleep for sleep that would not hear | M |
| But left her tossing still for night and day | N |
| A mighty hunger yearned within her heart | O |
| Till all her veins ran fever and her cheek | C |
| Her long thin hands and ivory channelled feet | P |
| Were wasted with the wasting of her soul | Q |
| Then peevishly she flung her on her face | R |
| And hid her eyeballs from the blinding glare | E |
| And fingered at the grass and tried to cool | S |
| Her crisp hot lips against the crisp hot sward | T |
| And then she raised her head and upward cast | U |
| Wild looks from homeless eyes whose liquid light | V |
| Gleamed out between deep folds of blue black hair | E |
| As gleam twin lakes between the purple peaks | W |
| Of deep Parnassus at the mournful moon | X |
| Beside her lay her lyre She snatched the shell | Y |
| And waked wild music from its silver strings | H |
| Then tossed it sadly by 'Ah hush ' she cries | Z |
| 'Dead offspring of the tortoise and the mine | A2 |
| Why mock my discords with thine harmonies | B2 |
| Although a thrice Olympian lot be thine | A2 |
| Only to echo back in every tone | C2 |
| The moods of nobler natures than thine own ' | D2 |
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| Eversley | Y |
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| From Yeast | E2 |
Charles Kingsley
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