The Shadow Of Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDDEFGGHH IIJKLLMNOOPPQQRSTTUV| A | |
| Fall Hercules from heaven in tempests hurl'd | B |
| And cleanse this beastly stable of the world | B |
| Or bend thy brazen bow against the Sun | C |
| As in Tartessus when thou hadst begun | C |
| Thy task of oxen heat in more extremes | D |
| Than thou wouldst suffer with his envious beams | D |
| Now make him leave the world to Night and dreams | D |
| Never were virtue's labours so envied | E |
| As in this light shoot shoot and stoop his pride | F |
| Suffer no more his lustful rays to get | G |
| The Earth with issue let him still be set | G |
| In Somnus' thickets bound about the brows | H |
| With pitchy vapours and with ebon boughs | H |
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| Rich taper'd sanctuary of the blest | I |
| Palace of Ruth made all of tears and rest | I |
| To thy black shades and desolat i on | J |
| I consecrate my life and living moan | K |
| Where furies shall for ever fighting be | L |
| And adders hiss the world for hating me | L |
| Foxes shall bark and night ravens belch in groans | M |
| And owls shall hollo my confus i ons | N |
| There will I furnish up my funeral bed | O |
| Strew'd with the bones and relics of the dead | O |
| Atlas shall let th' Olympic burthen fall | P |
| To cover my untombed face withal | P |
| And when as well the matter of our kind | Q |
| As the material substance of the mind | Q |
| Shall cease their revolutions in abode | R |
| Of such impure and ugly period | S |
| As the old essence and insensive prime | T |
| Then shall the ruins of the fourfold time | T |
| Turn'd to that lump as rapting torrents rise | U |
| For ever murmur forth my miseries | V |
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George Chapman
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