The Sculptor And The Statue Of Jupiter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DED FGFG HIHI JFKF DLDM FFFF NFNF OPQP| A block of marble was so fine | A |
| To buy it did a sculptor hasten | B |
| 'What shall my chisel now 'tis mine | A |
| A god a table or a basin ' | C |
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| 'A god ' said he 'the thing shall be | D |
| I'll arm it too with thunder | E |
| Let people quake and bow the knee | D |
| With reverential wonder ' | - |
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| So well the cunning artist wrought | F |
| All things within a mortal's reach | G |
| That soon the marble wanted nought | F |
| Of being Jupiter but speech | G |
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| Indeed the man whose skill did make | H |
| Had scarcely laid his chisel down | I |
| Before himself began to quake | H |
| And fear his manufacture's frown | I |
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| And even this excess of faith | J |
| The poet once scarce fell behind | F |
| The hatred fearing and the wrath | K |
| Of gods the product of his mind | F |
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| This trait we see in infancy | D |
| Between the baby and its doll | L |
| Of wax or china it may be | D |
| A pocket stuff'd or folded shawl | M |
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| Imagination rules the heart | F |
| And here we find the fountain head | F |
| From whence the pagan errors start | F |
| That o'er the teeming nations spread | F |
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| With violent and flaming zeal | N |
| Each takes his own chimera's part | F |
| Pygmalion doth a passion feel | N |
| For Venus chisel'd by his art | F |
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| All men as far as in them lies | O |
| Create realities of dreams | P |
| To truth our nature proves but ice | Q |
| To falsehood fire it seems | P |
Jean De La Fontaine
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