Jupiter And The Thunderbolts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEEFGH IIJJ KKLLJEDDMNNMDDOOPQQP RRSSTDTCCDUUKK DVVK KKWWXXYYZSSZJJ| Said Jupiter one day | A |
| As on a cloud he lay | A |
| 'Observing all our crimes | B |
| Come let us change the times | B |
| By leasing out anew | C |
| A world whose wicked crew | C |
| Have wearied out our grace | D |
| And cursed us to our face | D |
| Hie hellward Mercury | E |
| A Fury bring to me | E |
| The direst of the three | E |
| Race nursed too tenderly | E |
| This day your doom shall be ' | F |
| E'en while he spoke their fate | G |
| His wrath began to moderate | H |
| - | |
| O kings with whom His will | I |
| Hath lodged our good and ill | I |
| Your wrath and storm between | J |
| One night should intervene | J |
| - | |
| The god of rapid wing | K |
| And lip unfaltering | K |
| To sunless regions sped | L |
| And met the sisters dread | L |
| To grim Tisiphone | J |
| And pale Megaera he | E |
| Preferr'd as murderess | D |
| Alecto pitiless | D |
| This choice so roused the fiend | M |
| By Pluto's beard she swore | N |
| The human race no more | N |
| Should be by handfuls glean'd | M |
| But in one solid mass | D |
| Th' infernal gates should pass | D |
| But Jove displeased with both | O |
| The Fury and her oath | O |
| Despatched her back to hell | P |
| And then a bolt he hurl'd | Q |
| Down on a faithless world | Q |
| Which in a desert fell | P |
| Aim'd by a father's arm | R |
| It caused more fear than harm | R |
| All fathers strike aside | S |
| What did from this betide | S |
| Our evil race grew bold | T |
| Resumed their wicked tricks | D |
| Increased them manifold | T |
| Till all Olympus through | C |
| Indignant murmurs flew | C |
| When swearing by the Styx | D |
| The sire that rules the air | U |
| Storms promised to prepare | U |
| More terrible and dark | K |
| Which should not miss their mark | K |
| 'A father's wrath it is ' | - |
| The other deities | D |
| All in one voice exclaim'd | V |
| 'And might the thing be named | V |
| Some other god would make | K |
| Bolts better for our sake ' | - |
| This Vulcan undertook | K |
| His rumbling forges shook | K |
| And glow'd with fervent heat | W |
| While Cyclops blew and beat | W |
| Forth from the plastic flame | X |
| Two sorts of bolts there came | X |
| Of these one misses not | Y |
| 'Tis by Olympus shot | Y |
| That is the gods at large | Z |
| The other bearing wide | S |
| Hits mountain top or side | S |
| Or makes a cloud its targe | Z |
| And this it is alone | J |
| Which leaves the father's throne | J |
Jean De La Fontaine
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