The Cageing Of Ares Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Iliad v V Dedicated to the Council at The HagueA
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How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughedB
At sight of her boy Giants on the leapC
Each over other as they neighboured homeD
Fronting the day's descent across green slopesE
And up fired mountain crags their shadows dancedF
Close with them in their fun she scarce could guessG
Though these two billowy urchins reeked of craftB
It signalled some adventurous master trickH
To set Olympians buzzing in debateI
Lest it might be their godhead underminedJ
The Tyranny menaced Ephialtes highK
On shoulders of his brother Otos wavedL
For the bull bellowings given to grand good newsM
Compact complexioned in his gleeful roarN
While Otos aped the prisoner's wrists and kneesO
With doleful sniffs between recurrent howlsP
Till Gaea's lap receiving them they stretchedQ
And both upon her bosom shaken to speechR
Burst the hot story out of throats of bothS
Like rocky head founts baffling in their glutT
The hurried spout And as when drifting stormU
Disburdened loses clasp of here and yonV
A peak a forest mound a valley's gleamW
Of grass and the river's crooks and snaky coilsX
Signification marvellous she caughtY
Through gurglings of triumphant jollityY
Which now engulphed and now gave eye at lastY
Subsided and the serious naked deedY
With mountain cloud of laughter banked aroundY
Stood in her sight confirmed she could believeZ
That these her sprouts of promise her most prizedY
These two made up of lion bear and foxA2
Her sportive suckling mammoths her young joyB2
Still by the reckoning infants among menC2
Had done the deed to strike the Titan hostY
In envy dumb in envious heart elateY
These two combining strength and craft had snaredY
Enmeshed bound fast with thongs discreetly cagedY
The blood shedder the terrible Lord of WarN
Destroyer ravager superb in plumesD2
The barren furrower of anointed fieldsE2
The scarlet heel in towns foul smoke to skyK
Her hated enemy too long her scourgeF2
Great Ares And they gagged his trumpet mouthG2
When they had seized on his implacable spearH2
Hugged him to reedy helplessness despiteY
His godlike fury startled from amazeI2
For he had eyed them nearing him in playJ2
The giant cubs who gambolled and who snarledY
Unheeding his fell presence by the mountY
Ossa beside a brushwood cavern thereK2
On Earth's original fisticuffs they calledY
For ease of sharp dispute whereat the GodY
Approving deemed that sometime trained to armsL2
Good servitors of Ares they would beM2
And ply the pointed spear to dominateY
Their rebel restless fellows villain broodY
Vowed to defy Immortals So it chancedY
Amusedly he watched them and as oneN2
The lusty twain were on him and they had himO2
Breath to us Powers of air for laughter loudY
Cock of Olympus he superb in plumesD2
Bound like a wheaten sheaf by those two babesP2
Because they knew our Mother Gaea loathed himO2
Knew him the famine pestilence and wasteY
A desolating fire to blind the sightY
With splendour built of fruitful things in ashesQ2
The gory chariot wheel on cries for justiceR2
Her deepest planted and her liveliest voiceS2
Heard from the babe as from the broken croneT2
Behold him in his vessel of bronze encasedY
And tumbled down the cave But rather lookU2
Ah that the woman tattler had not soughtY
Of all the Gods to let her secret flyK
Hermes after the thirteen songful monthsV2
Prompting the Dexterous to work his artsW2
And shatter earth's delirious holidayY
Then first as where the fountain runs a streamW
Resolving to composure on its throbsW2
But see her in the Seasons through that yearH2
That one glad year and the fair opening monthX2
Had never our Great Mother such sweet faceW2
War with her gentle war with her each dayY
Her sons and daughters urged at eve were flungY2
On the morrow stood to challenge in their strengthZ2
Renewed indomitable whereof they wonN2
From hourly wrestlings up to shut of lidsW2
Her ready secret the abounding lifeA3
Returned for valiant labour she and theyY
Defeated and victorious turn by turnB3
By loss enriched by overthrow restoredY
Exchange of powers of this conflict cameC3
Defacement none nor ever squandered forceW2
Is battle nature's mandate here it reignedY
As music unto the hand that smote the stringsW2
And she the rosier from their showery browsW2
They fruitful from her ploughed and harrowed breastY
Back to the primal rational of thoseW2
Who suck the teats of milky earth and claspD3
Stability in hatred of the insaneE3
Man stepped with wits less fearful to pronounceW2
The mortal mind's concept of earth's divorcedY
Above those beautiful those masterfulF3
Those lawless High they sit and if descendY
Descend to reap not sowing Is it justY
Earth in her happy children asked that wordY
Whereto within their breast was her replyK
Those beautiful those masterful those lawlessW2
Enjoy the life prolonged outleap the yearsW2
Yet they 'twas the Great Mother's voice inspiredY
The audacious thought they glorious over dustY
Outleap not her disrooted from her soarN
To meet the certain fate of earth's divorcedY
And clap lame wings across a wintry hazeW2
Up to the farthest bourne immortal stillG3
Thenceforth innocuous lovelier than when ruledY
The Tyranny This her voice within them toldY
When softly the Great Mother chid her sonsW2
Not of the giant brood who did createY
Those lawless Gods first offspring of our brainE3
Set moving by an abject blood that wakedY
To wanton under elements more benignH3
And planted aliens on Olympian heightsW2
Imagination's cradle poesyW2
Become a monstrous pressure upon menC2
Foes of good Gaea until dispossessedY
By light from her born of the love of herI3
Their lordship the illumined brain rejectsW2
For earth's beneficent the sons of LawJ3
Her other name So spake she in their heartY
Among the wheat blades proud of stalk beneathK3
Young vine leaves pushing timid fingers forthL3
Confidently to cling And when brown cornM3
Swayed armied ranks with softened cricket songN3
With gold necks bent for any zephyr's kissW2
When vine roots daily down a rubble soilO3
Drank fire of heaven athirst to swell the grapeP3
When swelled the grape and in it held a rayY
Rich issue of the embrace of heaven and earthQ3
The very eye of passion drowsed by excessW2
And yet a burning lion for the springR3
Then in that time of general cherishmentY
Sweet breathing balm and flutes by cool wood sideY
He the harsh rouser of ire being absent cagedY
Then did good Gaea's children gratefullyM2
Lift hymns to Gods they judged but praised for peaceW2
Delightful Peace that answers Reason's callS3
Harmoniously and images her LawJ3
Reflects and though short lived as then revivesW2
In memories made present on the brainE3
By natural yearnings all the happy scenesW2
The picture of an earth allied to heavenN2
Between them the known smile behind black masksW2
Rightly their various moods interpretedY
And frolic because toilful children borneM3
With larger comprehension of Earth's aimC3
At loftier clearer sweeter by their aidY

George Meredith



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