Merope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDCDCECEFGFGHIHI BJBJCBCBKLKLGMGMBNBN OGOGCECE| FAR in the ways of the hyaline wastes in the face of the splendid | A |
| Six of the sisters the star dowered sisters ineffably bright | B |
| Merope sitteth the shadow like wife of a monarch unfriended | B |
| Of Ades of Orcus the fierce the implacable god of the night | B |
| Merope fugitive Merope lost to thyself and thy lover | C |
| Cast like a dream out of thought with the moons which have passed into sleep | D |
| What shall avail thee Alcyone s tears or the sight to discover | C |
| Of Sisyphus pallid for thee by the blue bitter lights of the deep | D |
| Pallid but patient for sorrow Oh thou of the fire and the water | C |
| Half with the flame of the sunset and kin to the streams of the sea | E |
| Hast thou the songs of old times for desire of thy dark featured daughter | C |
| Sweet with the lips of thy yearning O Aethra with tokens of thee | E |
| Songs that would lull her like kisses forgotten of silence where speech was | F |
| Less than the silence that bound it as passion is bound by a ban | G |
| Seeing we know of thee Mother we turning and hearing how each was | F |
| Wrapt in the other ere Merope faltered and fell for a man | G |
| Mortal she clave to forgetting her birthright forgetting the lordlike | H |
| Sons of the many winged Father and chiefs of the plume and the star | I |
| Therefore because that her sin was the grief of the grand and the godlike | H |
| Sitteth thy child than a morning moon bleaker the faded and far | I |
| Ringed with the flower like Six of the Seven arrayed and anointed | B |
| Ever with beautiful pity she watches she weeps and she wanes | J |
| Blind as a flame on the hills of the Winter in hours appointed | B |
| For the life of the foam and the thunder the strength of the imminent rains | J |
| Who hath a portion Alcyone like her Asterope fairer | C |
| Than sunset on snow and beloved of all brightness say what is there left | B |
| Sadder and paler than Pleione s daughter disconsolate bearer | C |
| Of trouble that smites like a sword of the gods to the break of the heft | B |
| Demeter and Dryope known to the forests the falls and the fountains | K |
| Yearly because of their walking and wailing and wringing of hands | L |
| Are they as one with this woman of Hyrie wild in the mountains | K |
| Breaking her heart in the frosts and the fires of the uttermost lands | L |
| These have their bitterness This for Persephone that for Oechalian | G |
| Homes and the lights of a kindness blown out with the stress of her shame | M |
| One for her child and one for her sin but thou above all art an alien | G |
| Girt with the halos that vex thee and wrapt in a grief beyond name | M |
| Yet sayeth Sisyphus Sisyphus stricken and chained of the minioned | B |
| Kings of great darkness and trodden in dust by the feet of the Fates | N |
| Sweet are the ways of thy watching and pallid and perished and pinioned | B |
| Moon amongst maidens I leap for thy love like a god at the gates | N |
| Leap for the dreams of a rose of the heavens and beat at the portals | O |
| Paved with the pain of unsatisfied pleadings for thee and for thine | G |
| But Zeus is immutable Master and these are the walls the immortals | O |
| Build for our sighing and who may set lips at the lords and repine | G |
| Therefore he saith I am sick for thee Merope faint for the tender | C |
| Touch of thy mouth and the eyes like the lights of an altar to me | E |
| But lo thou art far and thy face is a still and a sorrowful splendour | C |
| And the storm is abroad with the rain on the perilous straits of the sea | E |
Henry Kendall
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