Translation From The “medea” Of Euripides Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJBKLDMN OPOPQRQR DSDSKTKT RURVMMMM FWFWXYXY| When fierce conflicting passions urge | A |
| The breast where love is wont to glow | B |
| What mind can stem the stormy surge | A |
| Which rolls the tide of human woe | B |
| The hope of praise the dread of shame | C |
| Can rouse the tortur'd breast no more | D |
| The wild desire the guilty flame | C |
| Absorbs each wish it felt before | D |
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| But if affection gently thrills | E |
| The soul by purer dreams possest | F |
| The pleasing balm of mortal ills | E |
| In love can soothe the aching breast | F |
| If thus thou comest in disguise | G |
| Fair Venus from thy native heaven | H |
| What heart unfeeling would despise | G |
| The sweetest boon the Gods have given | H |
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| But never from thy golden bow | I |
| May I beneath the shaft expire | J |
| Whose creeping venom sure and slow | B |
| Awakes an all consuming fire | K |
| Ye racking doubts ye jealous fears | L |
| With others wage internal war | D |
| Repentance source of future tears | M |
| From me be ever distant far | N |
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| May no distracting thoughts destroy | O |
| The holy calm of sacred love | P |
| May all the hours be winged with joy | O |
| Which hover faithful hearts above | P |
| Fair Venus on thy myrtle shrine | Q |
| May I with some fond lover sigh | R |
| Whose heart may mingle pure with mine | Q |
| With me to live with me to die | R |
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| My native soil belov'd before | D |
| Now dearer as my peaceful home | S |
| Ne'er may I quit thy rocky shore | D |
| A hapless banish'd wretch to roam | S |
| This very day this very hour | K |
| May I resign this fleeting breath | T |
| Nor quit my silent humble bower | K |
| A doom to me far worse than death | T |
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| Have I not heard the exile's sigh | R |
| And seen the exile's silent tear | U |
| Through distant climes condemn'd to fly | R |
| A pensive weary wanderer here | V |
| Ah hapless dame no sire bewails | M |
| No friend thy wretched fate deplores | M |
| No kindred voice with rapture hails | M |
| Thy steps within a stranger's doors | M |
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| Perish the fiend whose iron heart | F |
| To fair affection's truth unknown | W |
| Bids her he fondly lov'd depart | F |
| Unpitied helpless and alone | W |
| Who ne'er unlocks with silver key | X |
| The milder treasures of his soul | Y |
| May such a friend be far from me | X |
| And Ocean's storms between us roll | Y |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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