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