Hero And Leander Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEFE GGHIIHJKLK EEMCCMNOPO CCQNNRCESP DDCEECCTET UUOHHOVGWG XXYCCYZA2B2A2 TTCC2C2CCCCC OOBCCBCD2E2D2 OOCF2F2CHOCO EECOOCG2H2I2H2 ZZYSSYBDHD CCAPEAJCJ2C BBK2CCK2L2OHO M2M2N2VVN2TO2CP2 CCQ2YYR2EES2E T2T2PCCPDIU2I V2V2CW2X2CBDY2D Z2Z2M2A3A3M2N2A2B3A2 CCC3BBC3D3NDN CCE3W2W2E3BCF3C CCG3TEG3H3I3DI3 I3I3J3AAG2See you the towers that gray and old | A |
Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold | A |
Steep sternly fronting steep | B |
The Hellespont beneath them swells | C |
And roaring cleaves the Dardanelles | C |
The rock gates of the deep | B |
Hear you the sea whose stormy wave | D |
From Asia Europe clove in thunder | E |
That sea which rent a world cannot | F |
Rend love from love asunder | E |
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In Hero's in Leander's heart | G |
Thrills the sweet anguish of the dart | G |
Whose feather flies from love | H |
All Hebe's bloom in Hero's cheek | I |
And his the hunter's steps that seek | I |
Delight the hills above | H |
Between their sires the rival feud | J |
Forbids their plighted hearts to meet | K |
Love's fruits hang over danger's gulf | L |
By danger made more sweet | K |
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Alone on Sestos' rocky tower | E |
Where upward sent in stormy shower | E |
The whirling waters foam | M |
Alone the maiden sits and eyes | C |
The cliffs of fair Abydos rise | C |
Afar her lover's home | M |
Oh safely thrown from strand to strand | N |
No bridge can love to love convey | O |
No boatman shoots from yonder shore | P |
Yet Love has found the way | O |
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That love which could the labyrinth pierce | C |
Which nerves the weak and curbs the fierce | C |
And wings with wit the dull | Q |
That love which o'er the furrowed land | N |
Bowed tame beneath young Jason's hand | N |
The fiery snorting bull | R |
Yes Styx itself that ninefold flows | C |
Has love the fearless ventured o'er | E |
And back to daylight borne the bride | S |
From Pluto's dreary shore | P |
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What marvel then that wind and wave | D |
Leander doth but burn to brave | D |
When love that goads him guides | C |
Still when the day with fainter glimmer | E |
Wanes pale he leaps the daring swimmer | E |
Amid the darkening tides | C |
With lusty arms he cleaves the waves | C |
And strikes for that dear strand afar | T |
Where high from Hero's lonely tower | E |
Lone streams the beacon star | T |
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In vain his blood the wave may chill | U |
These tender arms can warm it still | U |
And weary if the way | O |
By many a sweet embrace above | H |
All earthly boons can liberal love | H |
The lover's toil repay | O |
Until Aurora breaks the dream | V |
And warns the loiterer to depart | G |
Back to the ocean's icy bed | W |
Scared from that loving heart | G |
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So thirty suns have sped their flight | X |
Still in that theft of sweet delight | X |
Exult the happy pair | Y |
Caress will never pall caress | C |
And joys that gods might envy bless | C |
The single bride night there | Y |
Ah never he has rapture known | Z |
Who has not where the waves are driven | A2 |
Upon the fearful shores of hell | B2 |
Plucked fruits that taste of heaven | A2 |
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Now changing in their season are | T |
The morning and the Hesper star | T |
Nor see those happy eyes | C |
The leaves that withering droop and fall | C2 |
Nor hear when from its northern hall | C2 |
The neighboring winter sighs | C |
Or if they see the shortening days | C |
But seem to them to close in kindness | C |
For longer joys in lengthening nights | C |
They thank the heaven in blindness | C |
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It is the time when night and day | O |
In equal scales contend for sway | O |
Lone on her rocky steep | B |
Lingers the girl with wistful eyes | C |
That watch the sun steeds down the skies | C |
Careering towards the deep | B |
Lulled lay the smooth and silent sea | C |
A mirror in translucent calm | D2 |
The breeze along that crystal realm | E2 |
Unmurmuring died in balm | D2 |
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In wanton swarms and blithe array | O |
The merry dolphins glide and play | O |
Amid the silver waves | C |
In gray and dusky troops are seen | F2 |
The hosts that serve the ocean queen | F2 |
Upborne from coral caves | C |
They only they have witnessed love | H |
To rapture steal its secret way | O |
And Hecate seals the only lips | C |
That could the tale betray | O |
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She marks in joy the lulled water | E |
And Sestos thus thy tender daughter | E |
Soft flattering woos the sea | C |
Fair god and canst thou then betray | O |
No falsehood dwells with them that say | O |
That falsehood dwells with thee | C |
Ah faithless is the race of man | G2 |
And harsh a father's heart can prove | H2 |
But thee the gentle and the mild | I2 |
The grief of love can move | H2 |
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Within these hated walls of stone | Z |
Should I repining mourn alone | Z |
And fade in ceaseless care | Y |
But thou though o'er thy giant tide | S |
Nor bridge may span nor boat may glide | S |
Dost safe my lover bear | Y |
And darksome is thy solemn deep | B |
And fearful is thy roaring wave | D |
But wave and deep are won by love | H |
Thou smilest on the brave | D |
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Nor vainly sovereign of the sea | C |
Did Eros send his shafts to thee | C |
What time the rain of gold | A |
Bright Helle with her brother bore | P |
How stirred the waves she wandered o'er | E |
How stirred thy deeps of old | A |
Swift by the maiden's charms subdued | J |
Thou cam'st from out the gloomy waves | C |
And in thy mighty arms she sank | J2 |
Into thy bridal caves | C |
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A goddess with a god to keep | B |
In endless youth beneath the deep | B |
Her solemn ocean court | K2 |
And still she smooths thine angry tides | C |
Tames thy wild heart and favoring guides | C |
The sailor to the port | K2 |
Beautiful Helle bright one hear | L2 |
Thy lone adoring suppliant pray | O |
And guide O goddess guide my love | H |
Along the wonted way | O |
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Now twilight dims the waters' flow | M2 |
And from the tower the beacon's glow | M2 |
Waves flickering o'er the main | N2 |
Ah where athwart the dismal stream | V |
Shall shine the beacon's faithful beam | V |
The lover's eyes shall strain | N2 |
Hark sounds moan threatening from afar | T |
From heaven the blessed stars are gone | O2 |
More darkly swells the rising sea | C |
The tempest labors on | P2 |
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Along the ocean's boundless plains | C |
Lies night in torrents rush the rains | C |
From the dark bosomed cloud | Q2 |
Red lightning skirs the panting air | Y |
And loosed from out their rocky lair | Y |
Sweep all the storms abroad | R2 |
Huge wave on huge wave tumbling o'er | E |
The yawning gulf is rent asunder | E |
And shows as through an opening pall | S2 |
Grim earth the ocean under | E |
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Poor maiden bootless wail or vow | T2 |
Have mercy Jove be gracious thou | T2 |
Dread prayer was mine before | P |
What if the gods have heard and he | C |
Lone victim of the stormy sea | C |
Now struggles to the shore | P |
There's not a sea bird on the wave | D |
Their hurrying wings the shelter seek | I |
The stoutest ship the storms have proved | U2 |
Takes refuge in the creek | I |
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Ah still that heart which oft has braved | V2 |
The danger where the daring saved | V2 |
Love lureth o'er the sea | C |
For many a vow at parting morn | W2 |
That naught but death should bar return | X2 |
Breathed those dear lips to me | C |
And whirled around the while I weep | B |
Amid the storm that rides the wave | D |
The giant gulf is grasping down | Y2 |
The rash one to the grave | D |
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False Pontus and the calm I hailed | Z2 |
The awaiting murder darkly veiled | Z2 |
The lulled pellucid flow | M2 |
The smiles in which thou wert arrayed | A3 |
Were but the snares that love betrayed | A3 |
To thy false realm below | M2 |
Now in the midway of the main | N2 |
Return relentlessly forbidden | A2 |
Thou loosenest on the path beyond | B3 |
The horrors thou hadst hidden | A2 |
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Loud and more loud the tempest raves | C |
In thunder break the mountain waves | C |
White foaming on the rock | C3 |
No ship that ever swept the deep | B |
Its ribs of gnarled oak could keep | B |
Unshattered by the shock | C3 |
Dies in the blast the guiding torch | D3 |
To light the struggler to the strand | N |
'Tis death to battle with the wave | D |
And death no less to land | N |
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On Venus daughter of the seas | C |
She calls the tempest to appease | C |
To each wild shrieking wind | E3 |
Along the ocean desert borne | W2 |
She vows a steer with golden horn | W2 |
Vain vow relentless wind | E3 |
On every goddess of the deep | B |
On all the gods in heaven that be | C |
She calls to soothe in calm awhile | F3 |
The tempest laden sea | C |
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Hearken the anguish of my cries | C |
From thy green halls arise arise | C |
Leucothoe the divine | G3 |
Who in the barren main afar | T |
Oft on the storm beat mariner | E |
Dost gently saving shine | G3 |
Oh reach to him thy mystic veil | H3 |
To which the drowning clasp may cling | I3 |
And safely from that roaring grave | D |
To shore my lover bring | I3 |
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And now the savage winds are hushing | I3 |
And o'er the arched horizon blushing | I3 |
Day's chariot gleams on high | J3 |
Back to their wonted channels rolled | A |
In crystal calm the waves behold | A |
One smile on sea an | G2 |
Friedrich Schiller
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