Prometheus.[64] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDDEEFFGAAG A HIIHJJJJACKCLLCKGGCC A CGGCACGCGCMGMGGGGGGN GOGAO A P| I | A |
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| Titan to whose immortal eyes | B |
| The sufferings of mortality | C |
| Seen in their sad reality | C |
| Were not as things that gods despise | B |
| What was thy pity's recompense | D |
| A silent suffering and intense | D |
| The rock the vulture and the chain | E |
| All that the proud can feel of pain | E |
| The agony they do not show | F |
| The suffocating sense of woe | F |
| Which speaks but in its loneliness | G |
| And then is jealous lest the sky | A |
| Should have a listener nor will sigh | A |
| Until its voice is echoless | G |
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| II | A |
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| Titan to thee the strife was given | H |
| Between the suffering and the will | I |
| Which torture where they cannot kill | I |
| And the inexorable Heaven | H |
| And the deaf tyranny of Fate | J |
| The ruling principle of Hate | J |
| Which for its pleasure doth create | J |
| The things it may annihilate | J |
| Refused thee even the boon to die | A |
| The wretched gift Eternity | C |
| Was thine and thou hast borne it well | K |
| All that the Thunderer wrung from thee | C |
| Was but the menace which flung back | L |
| On him the torments of thy rack | L |
| The fate thou didst so well foresee | C |
| But would not to appease him tell | K |
| And in thy Silence was his Sentence | G |
| And in his Soul a vain repentance | G |
| And evil dread so ill dissembled | C |
| That in his hand the lightnings trembled | C |
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| III | A |
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| Thy Godlike crime was to be kind | C |
| To render with thy precepts less | G |
| The sum of human wretchedness | G |
| And strengthen Man with his own mind | C |
| But baffled as thou wert from high | A |
| Still in thy patient energy | C |
| In the endurance and repulse | G |
| Of thine impenetrable Spirit | C |
| Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse | G |
| A mighty lesson we inherit | C |
| Thou art a symbol and a sign | M |
| To Mortals of their fate and force | G |
| Like thee Man is in part divine | M |
| A troubled stream from a pure source | G |
| And Man in portions can foresee | G |
| His own funereal destiny | G |
| His wretchedness and his resistance | G |
| And his sad unallied existence | G |
| To which his Spirit may oppose | G |
| Itself an equal to all woes m | N |
| And a firm will and a deep sense | G |
| Which even in torture can descry | O |
| Its own concentered recompense | G |
| Triumphant where it dares defy | A |
| And making Death a Victory | O |
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| Diodati July | A |
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| First published Prisoner of Chillon etc | P |
George Gordon Byron
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