Prometheus Or The Poet's Forethought Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Of Prometheus how undaunted	A
On Olympus' shining bastions	B
His audacious foot he planted	C
Myths are told and songs are chanted	A
Full of promptings and suggestions	B
	-
Beautiful is the tradition	D
Of that flight through heavenly portals	E
The old classic superstition	D
Of the theft and the transmission	D
Of the fire of the Immortals	E
	-
First the deed of noble daring	F
Born of heavenward aspiration	D
Then the fire with mortals sharing	F
Then the vulture the despairing	F
Cry of pain on crags Caucasian	D
	-
All is but a symbol painted	C
Of the Poet Prophet Seer	G
Only those are crowned and sainted	A
Who with grief have been acquainted	A
Making nations nobler freer	H
	-
In their feverish exultations	E
In their triumph and their yearning	F
In their passionate pulsations	E
In their words among the nations	E
The Promethean fire is burning	F
	-
Shall it then be unavailing	F
All this toil for human culture	H
Through the cloud rack dark and trailing	F
Must they see above them sailing	F
O'er life's barren crags the vulture	H
	-
Such a fate as this was Dante's	E
By defeat and exile maddened	A
Thus were Milton and Cervantes	E
Nature's priests and Corybantes	E
By affliction touched and saddened	A
	-
But the glories so transcendent	A
That around their memories cluster	H
And on all their steps attendant	A
Make their darkened lives resplendent	A
With such gleams of inward lustre	H
	-
All the melodies mysterious	E
Through the dreary darkness chanted	A
Thoughts in attitudes imperious	E
Voices soft and deep and serious	E
Words that whispered songs that haunted	A
	-
All the soul in rapt suspension	D
All the quivering palpitating	F
Chords of life in utmost tension	D
With the fervor of invention	D
With the rapture of creating	F
	-
Ah Prometheus heaven scaling	F
In such hours of exultation	D
Even the faintest heart unquailing	F
Might behold the vulture sailing	F
Round the cloudy crags Caucasian	D
	-
Though to all there is not given	D
Strength for such sublime endeavor	H
Thus to scale the walls of heaven	D
And to leaven with fiery leaven	D
All the hearts of men for ever	H
	-
Yet all bards whose hearts unblighted	A
Honor and believe the presage	I
Hold aloft their torches lighted	A
Gleaming through the realms benighted	A
As they onward bear the message	J

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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