Syrinx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FBFB GHGH IBIB JBJB KBKB LMLM FMFM| A HEAP of low dark rocky coast | A |
| Unknown to foot or feather | B |
| A sea voice moaning like a ghost | A |
| And fits of fiery weather | B |
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| The flying Syrinx turned and sped | C |
| By dim mysterious hollows | D |
| Where night is black and day is red | C |
| And frost the fire wind follows | D |
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| Strong heavy footfalls in the wake | E |
| Came up with flights of water | B |
| The gods were mournful for the sake | E |
| Of Ladon s lovely daughter | B |
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| For when she came to spike and spine | F |
| Where reef and river gather | B |
| Her feet were sore with shell and chine | F |
| She could not travel farther | B |
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| Across a naked strait of land | G |
| Blown sleet and surge were humming | H |
| But trammelled with the shifting sand | G |
| She heard the monster coming | H |
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| A thing of hoofs and horns and lust | I |
| A gaunt goat footed stranger | B |
| She bowed her body in the dust | I |
| And called on Zeus to change her | B |
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| And called on Hermes fair and fleet | J |
| And her of hounds and quiver | B |
| To hide her in the thickets sweet | J |
| That sighed above the river | B |
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| So he that sits on flaming wheels | K |
| And rules the sea and thunder | B |
| Caught up the satyr by the heels | K |
| And tore his skirts asunder | B |
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| While Arcas of the glittering plumes | L |
| Took Ladon s daughter lightly | M |
| And set her in the gracious glooms | L |
| That mix with moon mist nightly | M |
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| And touched her lips with wild flower wine | F |
| And changed her body slowly | M |
| Till in soft reeds of song and shine | F |
| Her life was hidden wholly | M |
Henry Kendall
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