Daphne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJKKLL MMNNOOPQBBRR| Daphne Ladon's daughter Daphne Set thyself in silver light | A |
| Take thy thoughts of fairest texture weave them into words of white | A |
| Weave the rhyme of rose lipped Daphne nymph of wooded stream and shade | B |
| Flying love of bright Apollo fleeting type of faultless maid | B |
| She when followed from the forelands by the lord of lyre and lute | C |
| Sped towards far singing waters past deep gardens flushed with fruit | C |
| Took the path against Peneus panted by its yellow banks | D |
| Turned and looked and flew the faster through grey tufted thicket ranks | D |
| Flashed amongst high flowered sedges leaped across the brook and ran | E |
| Down to where the fourfold shadows of a nether glade began | E |
| There she dropped like falling Hesper heavy hair of radiant head | F |
| Hiding all the young abundance of her beauty's white and red | F |
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| Came the yellow tressed Far darter came the god whose feet are fire | G |
| On his lips the name of Daphne in his eyes a great desire | G |
| Fond full lips of lord and lover sad because of suit denied | H |
| Clear grey eyes made keen by passion panting pained unsatisfied | H |
| Here he turned and there he halted now he paused and now he flew | I |
| Swifter than his sister's arrows through soft dells of dreamy dew | I |
| Vext with gleams of Ladon's daughter dashed along the son of Jove | J |
| Fast upon flower trammelled Daphne fleeting on from grove to grove | J |
| Flights of seawind hard behind him breaths of bleak and whistling straits | K |
| Drifts of driving cloud above him like a troop of fierce eyed Fates | K |
| So he reached the water shallows then he stayed his steps and heard | L |
| Daphne drop upon the grasses fluttering like a wounded bird | L |
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| Was there help for Ladon's daughter Saturn's son is high and just | M |
| Did he come between her beauty and the fierce Far darter's lust | M |
| As she lay the helpless maiden caught and bound in fast eclipse | N |
| Did the lips of god drain pleasure from her sweet and swooning lips | N |
| Now that these and all Love's treasures blushed before the spoiler bare | O |
| Was the wrong that shall be nameless done and seen and suffered there | O |
| No for Zeus is King and Father Weary nymph and fiery god | P |
| Bend the knee alike before him he is kind and he is lord | Q |
| Therefore sing how clear browed Pallas Pallas friend of prayerful maid | B |
| Lifted dazzling Daphne lightly bore her down the breathless glade | B |
| Did the thing that Zeus commanded so it came to pass that he | R |
| Who had chased a white armed virgin caught at her and clasped a tree | R |
Henry Kendall
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