Le Roi S-amuse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFF GEHGGHII GGJGHJFF GKLGMLNEN GGOIIOII IPGGGGHH| Jove gazed | A |
| On woven mazes | B |
| Of patterned movement as the atoms whirled | C |
| His glance turned | D |
| Into dancing burning | E |
| Colour gods who rushed upon that sullen world | C |
| Waking re making exalting it anew | F |
| Silver and purple shrill voiced yellow turgid crimson and virgin blue | F |
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| Jove stared | G |
| On overbearing | E |
| And aching splendour of the naked rocks | H |
| Where his gaze smote | G |
| Hazily floated | G |
| To mount like thistledown in countless flocks | H |
| Fruit loving root loving gods cool and green | I |
| Of feathery grasses heather and orchard pollen'd lily the olive and the bean | I |
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| Jove laughed | G |
| Like cloven shafted | G |
| Lightning his laughter into brightness broke | J |
| From every dint | G |
| Where the severed splinters | H |
| Had scattered a Sylvan or a Satyr woke | J |
| Ounces came pouncing dragon people flew | F |
| There was spirited stallion squirrel unrespectful clanging raven and kangaroo | F |
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| Jove sighed | G |
| The hoving tide of | K |
| Ocean trembled at the motion of his breath | L |
| The sigh turned | G |
| Into white eternal | M |
| Radiant Aphrodite unafraid of death | L |
| A fragrance a vagrant unrest on earth she flung | N |
| There was favouring and fondling and bravery and building | E |
| and chuckling music and suckling of the young | N |
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| Jove thought | G |
| He strove and wrought at | G |
| A thousand clarities from his brows sprang | O |
| With earnest mien | I |
| Stern Athene | I |
| The cold armour on her shoulders rang | O |
| Our sires at the fires of her lucid eyes began | I |
| To speak in symbols to seek out causes to name the creatures they became Man | I |
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| World and Man | I |
| Unfurled their banner | P |
| It was gay Behemoth on a sable field | G |
| Fresh robed | G |
| In flesh the ennobled | G |
| Spirits carousing in their myriads reeled | G |
| There was frolic and holiday Jove laughed to see | H |
| The abyss empeopled his bliss imparted the throng that was his and no longer he | H |
Clive Staples Lewis
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