The Isles Of Greece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDD EFGFHH IJKLMM ININOO PQPQRS OTOTQQ UVUVOO| The isles of Greece the isles of Greece | A |
| Where burning Sappho loved and sung | B |
| Where grew the arts of war and peace | A |
| Where Delos rose and Phoebus | C |
| sprung | B |
| Eternal summer gilds them yet | D |
| But all except their sun is set | D |
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| The mountains look on Marathon | E |
| And Marathon looks on the sea | F |
| And musing there an hour alone | G |
| I dreamed that Greece might still be free | F |
| For standing on the Persians' grave | H |
| I could not deem myself a slave | H |
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| A king sat on the rocky brow | I |
| Which looks o'er sea born Salamis | J |
| And ships by thousands lay below | K |
| And men in nations all were his | L |
| He counted them at break of day | M |
| And when the sun set where were they | M |
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| And where are they And where art thou | I |
| My country On thy voiceless shore | N |
| The heroic lay is tuneless now | I |
| The heroic bosom beats no more | N |
| And must thy lyre so long divine | O |
| Degenerate into hands like mine | O |
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| 'Tis something in the dearth of fame | P |
| Though linked among a fettered race | Q |
| To feel at least a patriot's shame | P |
| Even as I sing suffuse my face | Q |
| For what is left the poet here | R |
| For Greeks a blush for Greece a tear | S |
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| Fill high the bowl with Samian wine | O |
| Our virgins dance beneath the shade | T |
| I see their glorious black eyes shine | O |
| But gazing on each glowing maid | T |
| My own the burning teardrop laves | Q |
| To think such breasts must suckle slaves | Q |
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| Place me on Sunium's marbled steep | U |
| Where nothing save the waves and I | V |
| May hear our mutual murmurs sweep | U |
| There swanlike let me sing and die | V |
| A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine | O |
| Dash down yon cup of Samian wine | O |
George Gordon Byron
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