Empdeocles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBCCBDDB A EBBEFFGHHG| I | A |
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| He leaped With none to hinder | B |
| Of Aetna's fiery scoriae | B |
| In the next vomit shower made he | C |
| A more peculiar cinder | B |
| And this great Doctor can it be | C |
| He left no saner recipe | C |
| For men at issue with despair | B |
| Admiring even his poet owns | D |
| While noting his fine lyric tones | D |
| The last of him was heels in air | B |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Comes Reverence her features | E |
| Amazed to see high Wisdom hear | B |
| With glimmer of a faunish leer | B |
| One mock her pride of creatures | E |
| Shall such sad incident degrade | F |
| A stature casting sunniest shade | F |
| O Reverence let Reason swim | G |
| Each life its critic deed reveals | H |
| And him reads Reason at his heels | H |
| If heels in air the last of him | G |
George Meredith
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