The Gods Of Greece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEDF GHGHIJAJ KLKLMNMN MOMOOPOP MPMPPPPP EPEPQRSR PPPPMQMQ STTTOPOP UFUFOMOM VTJTPWPW WXWXMMMM TWTWYMYM PEPEWWWW WMWMWWWW ZMZMPWPW PMPMA2FA2FYe in the age gone by | A |
Who ruled the world a world how lovely then | B |
And guided still the steps of happy men | B |
In the light leading strings of careless joy | C |
Ah flourished then your service of delight | D |
How different oh how different in the day | E |
When thy sweet fanes with many a wreath were bright | D |
O Venus Amathusia | F |
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Then through a veil of dreams | G |
Woven by song truth's youthful beauty glowed | H |
And life's redundant and rejoicing streams | G |
Gave to the soulless soul where'r they flowed | H |
Man gifted nature with divinity | I |
To lift and link her to the breast of love | J |
All things betrayed to the initiate eye | A |
The track of gods above | J |
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Where lifeless fixed afar | K |
A flaming ball to our dull sense is given | L |
Phoebus Apollo in his golden car | K |
In silent glory swept the fields of heaven | L |
On yonder hill the Oread was adored | M |
In yonder tree the Dryad held her home | N |
And from her urn the gentle Naiad poured | M |
The wavelet's silver foam | N |
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Yon bay chaste Daphne wreathed | M |
Yon stone was mournful Niobe's mute cell | O |
Low through yon sedges pastoral Syrinx breathed | M |
And through those groves wailed the sweet Philomel | O |
The tears of Ceres swelled in yonder rill | O |
Tears shed for Proserpine to Hades borne | P |
And for her lost Adonis yonder hill | O |
Heard Cytherea mourn | P |
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Heaven's shapes were charmed unto | M |
The mortal race of old Deucalion | P |
Pyrrha's fair daughter humanly to woo | M |
Came down in shepherd guise Latona's son | P |
Between men heroes gods harmonious then | P |
Love wove sweet links and sympathies divine | P |
Blest Amathusia heroes gods and men | P |
Equals before thy shrine | P |
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Not to that culture gay | E |
Stern self denial or sharp penance wan | P |
Well might each heart be happy in that day | E |
For gods the happy ones were kin to man | P |
The beautiful alone the holy there | Q |
No pleasure shamed the gods of that young race | R |
So that the chaste Camoenae favoring were | S |
And the subduing grace | R |
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A palace every shrine | P |
Your sports heroic yours the crown | P |
Of contests hallowed to a power divine | P |
As rushed the chariots thundering to renown | P |
Fair round the altar where the incense breathed | M |
Moved your melodious dance inspired and fair | Q |
Above victorious brows the garland wreathed | M |
Sweet leaves round odorous hair | Q |
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The lively Thyrsus swinger | S |
And the wild car the exulting panthers bore | T |
Announced the presence of the rapture bringer | T |
Bounded the Satyr and blithe Faun before | T |
And Maenads as the frenzy stung the soul | O |
Hymned in their maddening dance the glorious wine | P |
As ever beckoned to the lusty bowl | O |
The ruddy host divine | P |
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Before the bed of death | U |
No ghastly spectre stood but from the porch | F |
Of life the lip one kiss inhaled the breath | U |
And the mute graceful genius lowered a torch | F |
The judgment balance of the realms below | O |
A judge himself of mortal lineage held | M |
The very furies at the Thracian's woe | O |
Were moved and music spelled | M |
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In the Elysian grove | V |
The shades renewed the pleasures life held dear | T |
The faithful spouse rejoined remembered love | J |
And rushed along the meads the charioteer | T |
There Linus poured the old accustomed strain | P |
Admetus there Alcestis still could greet his | W |
Friend there once more Orestes could regain | P |
His arrows Philoctetes | W |
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More glorious than the meeds | W |
That in their strife with labor nerved the brave | X |
To the great doer of renowned deeds | W |
The Hebe and the heaven the Thunderer gave | X |
Before the rescued rescuer of the dead | M |
Bowed down the silent and immortal host | M |
And the twain stars their guiding lustre shed | M |
On the bark tempest tossed | M |
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Art thou fair world no more | T |
Return thou virgin bloom on Nature's face | W |
Ah only on the minstrel's magic shore | T |
Can we the footstep of sweet fable trace | W |
The meadows mourn for the old hallowing life | Y |
Vainly we search the earth of gods bereft | M |
Where once the warm and living shapes were rife | Y |
Shadows alone are left | M |
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Cold from the north has gone | P |
Over the flowers the blast that killed their May | E |
And to enrich the worship of the one | P |
A universe of gods must pass away | E |
Mourning I search on yonder starry steeps | W |
But thee no more Selene there I see | W |
And through the woods I call and o'er the deeps | W |
And Echo answers me | W |
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Deaf to the joys she gives | W |
Blind to the pomp of which she is possessed | M |
Unconscious of the spiritual power that lives | W |
Around and rules her by our bliss unblessed | M |
Dull to the art that colors or creates | W |
Like the dead timepiece godless nature creeps | W |
Her plodding round and by the leaden weights | W |
The slavish motion keeps | W |
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To morrow to receive | Z |
New life she digs her proper grave to day | M |
And icy moons with weary sameness weave | Z |
From their own light their fulness and decay | M |
Home to the poet's land the gods are flown | P |
Light use in them that later world discerns | W |
Which the diviner leading strings outgrown | P |
On its own axle turns | W |
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Home and with them are gone | P |
The hues they gazed on and the tones they heard | M |
Life's beauty and life's melody alone | P |
Broods o'er the desolate void the lifeless word | M |
Yet rescued from time's deluge still they throng | A2 |
Unseen the Pindus they were wont to cherish | F |
All that which gains immortal life in song | A2 |
To mortal life must perish | F |
Friedrich Schiller
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