James Thomson - (bysshe Vanolis)

The Naked Goddess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCC DDEEFFAA CCCGGCCHH IIJJKKCCLLMMAA NNBBOOPPCCKKCCQQ AACCRRCC EESSTTCCUUCCCCCC CCCCCCAASS CCAVCCAAOO CCMMCCBBWWBBCCXXAAAC CCCDDDD GGCCFFKKYYCCHHCCZZA2 A2CCDDDD EENNB2B2CCCCKK CCEEHHHHC2D2CCKKAAE2 F2CCKKAA DDCCCCG2G2 CCAACCHHH2R TTCCCCCC CCCCB2B2BBCCCCCCCCHH KKCCCC GGOOKKDDCCCCCCF2F2CC I2I2 HHCCKKAACCAAKKJ2J2F2 F2F2F2 CCCCK2K2CCCCCC RREEAAL2L2CCCCCCEECC J2J2CCDDGGJ2J2AACCCC

Arcane danze	A
D'immortal piede i ruinosi gioghi	B
Scossero e l'ardue selve oggi romito	C
Nido de' vend	C
LEOPARDI	C
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Through the country to the town	D
Ran a rumour and renown	D
That a woman grand and tall	E
Swift of foot and therewithal	E
Naked as a lily gleaming	F
Had been seen by eyes not dreaming	F
Darting down far forest glades	A
Flashing sunshine through the shades	A
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With this rumour's swelling word	C
All the city buzzed and stirred	C
Solemn senators conferred	C
Priest astrologer and mage	G
Subtle sophist bard and sage	G
Brought their wisdom lore and wit	C
To expound or riddle it	C
Last a porter ventured We	H
Might go out ourselves to see	H
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Thus upon a summer morn	I
Lo the city all forlorn	I
Every house and street and square	J
In the sunshine still and bare	J
Every galley left to sway	K
Silent in the glittering bay	K
All the people swarming out	C
Young and old a joyous rout	C
Rich and poor far streaming through	L
Fields and meadows dark with dew	L
Crowd on crowd and throng on throng	M
Chatter laughter jest and song	M
Deafened all the singing birds	A
Wildered sober grazing herds	A
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Up the hillside 'gainst the sun	N
Where the forest outskirts run	N
On along the level high	B
Where the azure of the sky	B
And the ruddy morning sheen	O
Drop in fragments through the treen	O
Where the sward surrounds the brake	P
With a lucid glassy lake	P
Where the ample glades extend	C
Until clouds and foliage blend	C
Where whoever turneth may	K
See the city and the bay	K
And beyond the broad sea bright	C
League on league of slanting light	C
Where the moist blue shadows sleep	Q
In the sacred forest deep	Q
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Suddenly the foremost pause	A
Ere the rear discern a cause	A
Loiterers press up row on row	C
All the mass heaves to and fro	C
All seem murmuring in one strain	R
All seem hearkening fixed and fain	R
Silence and the lifted light	C
Of countless faces gazing white	C
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Four broad beech trees great of bole	E
Crowned the green smooth swelling knoll	E
There She leant the glorious form	S
Dazzling with its beauty warm	S
Naked as the sun of noon	T
Naked as the midnight moon	T
And around her tame and mild	C
All the forest creatures wild	C
Lion panther kid and fawn	U
Eagle hawk and dove all drawn	U
By the magic of her splendour	C
By her great voice rich and tender	C
Whereof every beast and bird	C
Understood each tone and word	C
While she fondled and carest	C
Playing freaks of joyous zest	C
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Suddenly the lion stood	C
Turned and saw the multitude	C
Swelled his mighty front in ire	C
Roared the roar of raging fire	C
Then She turned the living light	C
Sprang erect grew up in height	C
Smote them with the flash and blaze	A
Of her terrible swift gaze	A
A divine flushed throbbing form	S
Dreadfuller than blackest storm	S
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All the forest creatures cowered	C
Trembling moaning overpowered	C
All the simple folk who saw	A
Sank upon their knees in awe	V
Of this Goddess fierce and splendid	C
Whom they witless had offended	C
And they murmured out faint prayers	A
Inarticulate despairs	A
Till her haught and angry mien	O
Grew more gentle and serene	O
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Stood the high priest forth and went	C
Halfway up the green ascent	C
There began a preachment long	M
Of the great and grievous wrong	M
She unto her own soul wrought	C
In thus living without thought	C
Of the gods who sain and save	B
Of the life beyond the grave	B
Living with the beasts that perish	W
Far from all the rites that cherish	W
Hope and faith and holy love	B
And appease the thrones above	B
Full of unction pled the preacher	C
Let her come and they would teach her	C
Spirit strangled in the mesh	X
Of the vile and sinful flesh	X
How to gain the heavenly prize	A
How grow meet for Paradise	A
Penance prayer self sacrifice	A
Fasting cloistered solitude	C
Mind uplifted heart subdued	C
Thus a Virgin clean and chaste	C
In the Bridegroom's arms embraced	C
Vestal sister's hooded gown	D
Straight and strait of dismal brown	D
Here he proffered and laid down	D
On the green grass like a frown	D
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Then stood forth the old arch sage	G
Wrinkled more with thought than age	G
What could worse afflict deject	C
Any well trained intellect	C
Than in savage forest seeing	F
Such a full grown human being	F
With the beasts and birds at play	K
Ignorant and wild as they	K
Sciences and arts by which	Y
Man makes Nature's poor life rich	Y
Dominates the world around	C
Proves himself its King self crowned	C
She knew nothing of them she	H
Knew not even what they be	H
Body naked to the air	C
And the reason just as bare	C
Yet since circumstance that can	Z
Hinder the full growth of man	Z
Cannot kill the seeds of worth	A2
Innate in the Lord of Earth	A2
Yet she might be taught and brought	C
To full sovranty of thought	C
Crowned with reason's glorious crown	D
So he tendered and laid down	D
Sober grey beside the brown	D
Amplest philosophic gown	D
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Calm and proud she stood the while	E
With a certain wondering smile	E
When the luminous sage was done	N
She began to speak as one	N
Using language not her own	B2
Simplest words in sweetest tone	B2
Poor old greybeards worn and bent	C
I do know not what they meant	C
Only here and there a word	C
Reached my mind of all I heard	C
Let some child come here I may	K
Understand what it can say	K
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So two little children went	C
Lingering up the green ascent	C
Hand in hand but grew the while	E
Bolder in her gentle smile	E
When she kissed them they were free	H
Joyous as at mother's knee	H
Tell me darlings now said she	H
What they want to say to me	H
Boy and girl then nothing loth	C2
Sometimes one and sometimes both	D2
Prattled to her sitting there	C
Fondling with their soft young hair	C
Dear kind lady do you stay	K
Here with always holiday	K
Do you sleep among the trees	A
People want you if you please	A
To put on your dress and come	E2
With us to the City home	F2
Live with us and be our friend	C
Oh such pleasant times we'll spend	C
But if you can't come away	K
Will you let us stop and play	K
With you and all these happy things	A
With hair and horns and shining wings	A
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She arose and went half down	D
Took the vestal sister's gown	D
Tried it on burst through its shroud	C
As the sun burns through a cloud	C
Flung it from her split and rent	C
Said This cerement sad was meant	C
For some creature stunted thin	G2
Breastless blighted bones and skin	G2
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Then the sage's robe she tried	C
Muffling in its long folds wide	C
All her lithe and glorious grace	A
I should stumble every pace	A
This big bag was meant to hold	C
Some poor sluggard fat and old	C
Limping shuffling wearily	H
With a form not fit to see	H
So she flung it off again	H2
With a gesture of disdain	R
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Naked as the midnight moon	T
Naked as the sun of noon	T
Burning too intensely bright	C
Clothed in its own dazzling light	C
Seen less thus than in the shroud	C
Of morning mist or evening cloud	C
She stood terrible and proud	C
O'er the pallid quivering crowd	C
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At a gesture ere they wist	C
Perched a falcon on her wrist	C
And she whispered to the bird	C
Something it alone there heard	C
Then she threw it off when thrown	B2
Straight it rose as falls a stone	B2
Arrow swift on high on high	B
Till a mere speck in the sky	B
Then it circled round and round	C
Till as if the prey were found	C
Forth it darted on its quest	C
Straight away into the West	C
Every eye that watched its flight	C
Felt a sideward flash of light	C
All were for a moment dazed	C
Then around intently gazed	C
What had passed them Where was She	H
The offended deity	H
O'er the city o'er the bay	K
They beheld her melt away	K
Melt away beyond their quest	C
Through the regions of the west	C
While the eagle screamed rauque ire	C
And the lion roared like fire	C
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That same night both priest and sage	G
Died accursed in sombre rage	G
Never more in wild wood green	O
Was that glorious Goddess seen	O
Never more and from that day	K
Evil hap and dull decay	K
Fell on countryside and town	D
Life and vigour dwindled down	D
Storms in Spring nipped bud and sprout	C
Summer suns shed plague and drought	C
Autumn's store was crude and scant	C
Winter snows beleaguered want	C
Vines were black at vintage tide	C
Flocks and herds of murrain died	C
Fishing boats came empty home	F2
Good ships foundered in the foam	F2
Haggard traders lost all heart	C
Wandering through the empty mart	C
For the air hung thick with gloom	I2
Silence and the sense of doom	I2
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But those little children she	H
Had caressed so tenderly	H
Were betrothed that self same night	C
Grew up beautiful and bright	C
Lovers through the years of play	K
Forward to their marriage day	K
Three long moons of bridal bliss	A
Overflowed them after this	A
With his bride and with a band	C
Of the noblest in the land	C
Youths and maidens wedded pairs	A
Scarcely older in life's cares	A
He took ship and sailed away	K
Westward Ho from out the bay	K
Portioned from their native shrine	J2
With the Sacred Fire divine	J2
They will cherish while they roam	F2
Quenchless 'mid the salt sea foam	F2
Till it burns beneath a dome	F2
In some new and far off home	F2
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As they ventured more and more	C
In that ocean without shore	C
And some hearts were growing cold	C
At the emprise all too bold	C
It is said a falcon came	K2
Down the void blue swift as flame	K2
Every sunset came to rest	C
On the prow's high curving crest	C
Every sunrise rose from rest	C
Flying forth into the west	C
And they followed faint no more	C
Through that ocean without shore	C
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Three moons crescent fill and wane	R
O'er the solitary main	R
When behold a green shore smile	E
It was that Atlantic isle	E
Drowned beneath the waves and years	A
Whereof some faint shadow peers	A
Dubious through the modern stream	L2
Of Platonic legend dream	L2
High upon that green shore stood	C
She who left their native wood	C
Glorious and with solemn hand	C
Beckoned to them there to land	C
Though She forthwith disappeared	C
As the wave worn galley neared	C
They knew well her presence still	E
Haunted stream and wood and hill	E
There they landed there grew great	C
Founders of a mighty state	C
There the Sacred Fire divine	J2
Burned within a wondrous shrine	J2
Which Her statue glorified	C
Throughout many kingdoms wide	C
There those children wore the crown	D
To their children handed down	D
Many and many a golden age	G
Blotted now from history's page	G
Till the last of all the line	J2
Leagued him with the other nine	J2
Great Atlantic kings whose hosts	A
Ravaged all the Mid Sea coasts	A
Then the whelming deluge rolled	C
Over all those regions old	C
Thrice three thousand years before	C
Solon questioned Egypt's lore	C

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