Let Zeus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FCCC GCHI JCKL A MNOC CCCC CCPC QRSR A CMCSK TUVTRI WXY XYX ZA2A2 A2A2CC A2XCB2C2D2 E2WCX RWCCF2G2H2 D2CI2 J2CK2I2 L2XCH M2N2CW| I | A |
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| I say I am quite done | B |
| quite done with this | C |
| you smile your calm | D |
| inveterate chill smile | E |
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| and light steps back | F |
| intolerate loveliness | C |
| smiles at the ranks | C |
| of obdurate bitterness | C |
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| you smile with keen | G |
| chiselled and frigid lips | C |
| it seems no evil | H |
| ever could have been | I |
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| so on the Parthenon | J |
| like splendour keeps | C |
| peril at bay | K |
| facing inviolate dawn | L |
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| II | A |
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| Men cannot mar you | M |
| women cannot break | N |
| your innate strength | O |
| your stark autocracy | C |
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| still I will make no plea | C |
| for this slight verse | C |
| it outlines simply | C |
| Love's authority | C |
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| but pardon this | C |
| that in these luminous days | C |
| I re invoke the dark | P |
| to frame your praise | C |
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| as one to make a bright room | Q |
| seem more bright | R |
| stares out deliberate | S |
| into Cerberus night | R |
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| III | A |
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| Sometimes I chide the manner of your dress | C |
| I want all men to see the grace of you | M |
| I mock your pace your body's insolence | C |
| thinking that all should praise while obstinate | S |
| you still insist your beauty's gold is clay | K |
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| I chide you that you stand not forth entire | T |
| set on bright plinth intolerably desired | U |
| yet I in turn will cheat will thwart your whim | V |
| I'll break my thought weld it to fit your measure | T |
| as one who sets a statue on a height | R |
| to show where Hyacinth or Pan have been | I |
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| IV | - |
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| When blight lay and the Persian like a scar | W |
| and death was heavy on Athens plague and war | X |
| you gave me this bright garment and this ring | Y |
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| I who still kept of wisdom's meagre store | X |
| a few rare songs and some philosophising | Y |
| offered you these for I had nothing more | X |
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| that which both Athens and the Persian mocked | Z |
| you took as a cold famished bird takes grain | A2 |
| blown inland through darkness and withering rain | A2 |
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| V | - |
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| Would you prefer myrrh flower or cyclamen | A2 |
| I have them I could spread them out again | A2 |
| but now for this stark moment while Love breaths | C |
| his tentative breath as dying yet still lives | C |
| wait as that time you waited tense with me | - |
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| others shall love when Athens lives again | A2 |
| you waited in the agonies of war | X |
| others will praise when all the host proclaims | C |
| Athens the perfect you when Athens lost | B2 |
| stood by her when the dark perfidious host | C2 |
| turned it was you who pled for her with death | D2 |
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| VI | - |
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| Stars wheel in purple yours is not so rare | E2 |
| as Hesperus nor yet so great a star | W |
| as bright Aldebaran or Sirius | C |
| nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War | X |
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| stars turn in purple glorious to the sight | R |
| yours is not gracious as the Pleiads' are | W |
| nor as Orion's sapphires luminous | C |
| yet disenchanted cold imperious face | C |
| when all the others blighted reel and fall | F2 |
| your star steel set keeps lone and frigid tryst | G2 |
| to freighted ships baffled in wind and blast | H2 |
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| VII | - |
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| None watched with me | - |
| who watched his fluttering breath | D2 |
| none brought white roses | C |
| none the roses red | I2 |
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| many had loved | J2 |
| had sought him luminous | C |
| when he was blithe | K2 |
| and purple draped his bed | I2 |
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| yet when Love fell | L2 |
| struck down with plague and war | X |
| you lay white myrrh buds | C |
| on the darkened lintel | H |
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| you fastened blossom | M2 |
| to the smitten sill | N2 |
| let Zeus record this | C |
| daring Death to mar | W |
H. D.
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