Hyperion, A Vision : Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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CANTO IA
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Fanatics have their dreams wherewith they weaveB
A paradise for a sect the savage tooC
From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleepD
Guesses at heaven pity these have notE
Trac'd upon vellum or wild Indian leafF
The shadows of melodious utteranceG
But bare of laurel they live dream and dieA
For Poesy alone can tell her dreamsH
With the fine spell of words alone can saveI
Imagination from the sable chainJ
And dumb enchantment Who alive can sayK
Thou art no Poet may'st not tell thy dreamsH
Since every man whose soul is not a clodA
Hath visions and would speak if he had lovedA
And been well nurtured in his mother tongueL
Whether the dream now purpos'd to rehearseM
Be poet's or fanatic's will be knownN
When this warm scribe my hand is in the graveI
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Methought I stood where trees of every climeO
Palm myrtle oak and sycamore and beechP
With plantane and spice blossoms made a screenQ
In neighbourhood of fountains by the noiseR
Soft showering in mine ears and by the touchS
Of scent not far from roses Twining roundA
I saw an arbour with a drooping roofT
Of trellis vines and bells and larger bloomsU
Like floral censers swinging light in airV
Before its wreathed doorway on a moundA
Of moss was spread a feast of summer fruitsW
Which nearer seen seem'd refuse of a mealX
By angel tasted or our Mother EveB
For empty shells were scatter'd on the grassY
And grapestalks but half bare and remnants moreZ
Sweet smelling whose pure kinds I could not knowA2
Still was more plenty than the fabled hornB2
Thrice emptied could pour forth at banquetingL
For Prosperine return'd to her own fieldsC2
Where the white heifers low And appetiteA
More yearning than on earth I ever feltA
Growing within I ate deliciouslyD2
And after not long thirsted for therebyA
Stood a cool vessel of transparent juiceE2
Sipp'd by the wander'd bee the which I tookL
And pledging all the mortals of the worldA
And all the dead whose names are in our lipsF2
Drank That full draught is parent of my themeO
No Asian poppy nor elixir fineG2
Of the soon fading jealous CaliphatA
No poison gender'd in close monkish cellH2
To thin the scarlet conclave of old menI2
Could so have rapt unwilling life awayK
Among the fragment husks and berries crush'dA
Upon the grass I struggled hard againstA
The domineering potion but in vainJ
The cloudy swoon came on and down I sankL
Like a Silenus on an antique vaseJ2
How long I slumber'd 'tis a chance to guessK2
When sense of life return'd I started upL2
As if with wings but the fair trees were goneM2
The mossy mound and arbour were no moreZ
I look'd around upon the curved sidesN2
Of an old sanctuary with roof augustA
Builded so high it seem'd that filmed cloudsO2
Might spread beneath as o'er the stars of heavenP2
So old the place was I remember'd noneP2
The like upon the earth what I had seenQ
Of grey cathedrals buttress'd walls rent towersQ2
The superannuations of sunk realmsR2
Or Nature's rocks toil'd hard in waves and windsS2
Seem'd but the faulture of decrepit thingsT2
To that eternal domed monumentA
Upon the marble at my feet there layK
Store of strange vessels and large draperiesU2
Which needs have been of dyed asbestos woveV2
Or in that place the moth could not corruptA
So white the linen so in some distinctA
Ran imageries from a sombre loomO
All in a mingled heap confus'd there layK
Robes golden tongs censer and chafing dishW2
Girdles and chains and holy jewelriesU2
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Turning from these with awe once more I raisedA
My eyes to fathom the space every wayK
The embossed roof the silent massy rangeX2
Of columns north and south ending in mistA
Of nothing then to eastward where black gatesU2
Were shut against the sunrise evermoreZ
Then to the west I look'd and saw far offY2
An image huge of feature as a cloudA
At level of whose feet an altar sleptA
To be approach'd on either side by stepsU2
And marble balustrade and patient travailZ2
To count with toil the innumerable degreesU2
Towards the altar sober pac'd I wentA
Repressing haste as too unholy thereV
And coming nearer saw beside the shrineG2
One ministering and there arose a flameO
When in mid day the sickening east windA
Shifts sudden to the south the small warm rainJ
Melts out of the frozen incense from all flowersU2
And fills the air with so much pleasant healthA3
That even the dying man forgets his shroudA
Even so that lofty sacrificial fireB3
Sending forth Maian incense spread aroundA
Forgetfulness of everything but blissU2
And clouded all the altar with soft smokeL
From whose white fragrant curtains thus I heardA
Language pronounc'd If thou canst not ascendA
These steps die on that marble where thou artA
Thy flesh near cousin to the common dustA
Will parch for lack of nutriment thy bonesU2
Will wither in few years and vanish soU2
That not the quickest eye could find a grainJ
Of what thou now art on that pavement coldA
The sands of thy short life are spent this hourB3
And no hand in the universe can turnC3
Thy hourglass if these gummed leaves be burntA
Ere thou canst mount up these immortal stepsU2
I heard I look'd two senses both at onceU2
So fine so subtle felt the tyrannyD2
Of that fierce threat and the hard task proposedA
Prodigious seem'd the toil the leaves were yetA
Burning when suddenly a palsied chillD3
Struck from the paved level up my limbsU2
And was ascending quick to put cold graspE3
Upon those streams that pulse beside the throatA
I shriek'd and the sharp anguish of my shriekL
Stung my own ears I strove hard to escapeF3
The numbness strove to gain the lowest stepG3
Slow heavy deadly was my pace the coldA
Grew stifling suffocating at the heartA
And when I clasp'd my hands I felt them notA
One minute before death my ic'd foot touch'dA
The lowest stair and as it touch'd life seem'dA
To pour in at the toes I mounted upL2
As once fair angels on a ladder flewC
From the green turf to heaven Holy PowerB3
Cry'd I approaching near the horned shrineG2
What am I that another death come notA
To choke my utterance sacrilegious hereH3
Then said the veiled shadow Thou hast feltA
What 'tis to die and live again beforeZ
Thy fated hour that thou hadst power to do soU2
Is thine own safety thou hast dated onI3
Thy doom High Prophetess said I purge offY2
Benign if so it please thee my mind's filmO
None can usurp this height return'd that shadeA
But those to whom the miseries of the worldA
Are misery and will not let them restA
All else who find a haven in the worldA
Where they may thoughtless sleep away their daysU2
If by a chance into this fane they comeO
Rot on the pavement where thou rottedst halfJ3
Are there not thousands in the world said IA
Encourag'd by the sooth voice of the shadeA
Who love their fellows even to the deathK3
Who feel the giant agony of the worldA
And more like slaves to poor humanityD2
Labour for mortal good I sure should seeD2
Other men here but I am here aloneN
Those whom thou spakest of are no visionariesU2
Rejoin'd that voice they are no dreamers weakL
They seek no wonder but the human faceU2
No music but a happy noted voiceU2
They come not here they have no thought to comeO
And thou art here for thou art less than theyK
What benefit canst thou do or all thy tribeL3
To the great world Thou art a dreaming thingL
A fever of thyself think of the earthM3
What bliss even in hope is there for theeD2
What haven every creature hath its homeO
Every sole man hath days of joy and painJ
Whether his labours be sublime or lowU2
The pain alone the joy alone distinctA
Only the dreamer venoms all his daysU2
Bearing more woe than all his sins deserveN3
Therefore that happiness be somewhat sharedA
Such things as thou art are admitted oftA
Into like gardens thou didst pass erewhileU2
And suffer'd in these temples for that causeU2
Thou standest safe beneath this statue's kneesU2
That I am favour'd for unworthinessU2
But such propitious parley medicinedA
In sickness not ignoble I rejoiceU2
Aye and could weep for love of such awardA
So answer'd I continuing If it pleaseU2
Majestic shadow tell me where I amO
Whose altar this for whom this incense curlsU2
What image this whose face I cannot seeU2
For the broad marble knees and who thou artA
Of accent feminine so courteousU2
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Then the tall shade in drooping linen veil'dA
Spoke out so much more earnest that her breathK3
Stirr'd the thin folds of gauze that drooping hungL
About a golden censer from her handA
Pendent and by her voice I knew she shedA
Long treasured tears This temple sad and loneN
Is all spar'd from the thunder of a warZ
Foughten long since by giant hierarchyU2
Against rebellion this old image hereH3
Whose carved features wrinkled as he fellU2
Is Saturn's I Moneta left supremeO
Sole goddess of this desolationP2
I had no words to answer for my tongueL
Useless could find about its roofed homeO
No syllable of a fit majestyU2
To make rejoinder of Moneta's mournB2
There was a silence while the altar's blazeU2
Was fainting for sweet food I look'd thereonM2
And on the paved floor where nigh were piledA
Faggots of cinnamon and many heapsU2
Of other crisped spicewood then againI2
I look'd upon the altar and its hornsU2
Whiten'd with ashes and its languorous flameO
And then upon the offerings againI2
And so by turns till sad Moneta cry'dA
The sacrifice is done but not the lessU2
Will I be kind to thee for thy good willU2
My power which to me is still a curseU2
Shall be to thee a wonder for the scenesU2
Still swooning vivid through my globbed brainJ
With an electral changing miseryU2
Thou shalt with these dull mortal eyes beholdA
Free from all pain if wonder pain thee notA
As near as an immortal's sphered wordsU2
Could to a mother's soften were these lastA
And yet I had a terror of her robesU2
And chiefly of the veils that from her browO3
Hung pale and curtain'd her in mysteriesU2
That made my heart too small to hold its bloodA
This saw that Goddess and with sacred handA
Parted the veils Then saw I a wan faceU2
Not pin'd by human sorrows but bright blanch'dA
By an immortal sickness which kills notA
It works a constant change which happy deathK3
Can put no end to deathwards progressingL
To no death was that visage it had pastA
The lilly and the snow and beyond theseU2
I must not think now though I saw that faceU2
But for her eyes I should have fled awayK
They held me back with a benignant lightA
Soft mitigated by divinest lidsU2
Half clos'd and visionless entire they seem'dA
Of all external things they saw me notA
But in blank splendour beam'd like the mild moonP3
Who comforts those she sees not who knows notA
What eyes are upward cast As I had foundA
A grain of gold upon a mountain's sideA
And twing'd with avarice strain'd out my eyesU2
To search its sullen entrails rich with oreZ
So at the sad view of Moneta's browO3
I ask'd to see what things the hollow browO3
Behind environ'd what high tragedyA
In the dark secret chambers of her skullU2
Was acting that could give so dread a stressU2
To her cold lips and fill with such a lightA
Her planetary eyes and touch her voiceU2
With such a sorrow Shade of MemoryA
Cried I with act adorant at her feetA
By all the gloom hung round thy fallen houseU2
By this last temple by the golden ageQ3
By Great Apollo thy dear Foster childA
And by thyself forlorn divinityA
The pale Omega of a wither'd raceU2
Let me behold according as thou saidstA
What in thy brain so ferments to and froU2
No sooner had this conjuration pastA
My devout lips than side by side we stoodA
Like a stunt bramble by a solemn pineG2
Deep in the shady sadness of a valeU2
Far sunken from the healthy breath of mornB2
Far from the fiery noon and eve's one starR3
Onward I look'd beneath the gloomy boughsU2
And saw what first I thought an image hugeS3
Like to the image pedestall'd so highA
In Saturn's temple then Moneta's voiceU2
Came brief upon mine ear So Saturn satA
When he had lost his realms whereon there grewC
A power within me of enormous kenI2
To see as a god sees and take the depthT3
Of things as nimbly as the outward eyeA
Can size and shape pervade The lofty themeO
Of those few words hung vast before my mindA
With half unravell'd web I sat myselfU3
Upon an eagle's watch that I might seeA
And seeing ne'er forget No stir of lifeV3
Was in this shrouded vale not so much airV
As in the zoning of a summer's dayA
Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grassU2
But where the dead leaf fell there did it restA
A stream went noiseless by still deaden'd moreZ
By reason of the fallen divinityA
Spreading more shade the Naiad 'mid her reedsU2
Prest her cold finger closer to her lipsU2
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Along the margin sand large foot marks wentA
No further than to where old Saturn's feetA
Had rested and there slept how long a sleepD
Degraded cold upon the sodden groundA
His old right hand lay nerveless listless deadA
Unsceptred and his realmless eyes were closedA
While his bow'd head seem'd listening to the EarthM3
His ancient mother for some comfort yetA
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It seem'd no force could wake him from his placeU2
But there came one who with a kindred handA
Touch'd his wide shoulders after bending lowU2
With reverence though to one who knew it notA
Then came the griev'd voice of MnemosyneI2
And griev'd I hearken'd That divinityA
Whom thou saw'st step from yon forlornest woodA
And with slow pace approach our fallen kingL
Is Thea softest natured of our broodA
I mark'd the Goddess in fair statuaryA
Surpassing wan Moneta by the headA
And in her sorrow nearer woman's tearsU2
There was a list'ning fear in her regardA
As if calamity had but begunI2
As if the venom'd clouds of evil daysU2
Had spent their malice and the sullen rearW3
Was with its stored thunder labouring upL2
One hand she press'd upon that aching spotA
Where beats the human heart as if just thereV
Though an immortal she felt cruel painI2
The other upon Saturn's bended neckL
She laid and to the level of his earH3
Leaning with parted lips some words she spokeL
In solemn tenour and deep organ toneI2
Some mourning words which in our feeble tongueL
Would come in this like accenting how frailU2
To that large utterance of the early godsU2
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Saturn look up and for what poor lost kingL
I have no comfort for thee no not oneI2
I cannot say wherefore thus sleepest thouO3
For Heaven is parted from thee and the EarthM3
Knows thee not so afflicted for a godA
The Ocean too with all its solemn noiseU2
Has from thy sceptre pass'd and all the airV
Is emptied of thy hoary majestyA
Thy thunder captious at the new commandA
Rumbles reluctant o'er our fallen houseU2
And thy sharp lightning in unpractis'd handsU2
Scourges and burns our once serene domainI2
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With such remorseless speed still come new woesU2
That unbelief has not a space to breatheX3
Saturn sleep on me thoughtless why should IA
Thus violate thy slumbrous solitudeA
Why should I ope thy melancholy eyesU2
Saturn sleep on while at thy feet I weepD
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As when upon a tranced summer nightA
Forests branch charmed by the earnest starsU2
Dream and so dream all night without a noiseU2
Save from one gradual solitary gustA
Swelling upon the silence dying offY2
As if the ebbing air had but one waveI
So came these words and went the while in tearsU2
She prest her fair large forehead to the earthM3
Just where her fallen hair might spread in curlsU2
A soft and silken net for Saturn's feetA
Long long these two were postured motionlessU2
Like sculpture builded up upon the graveI
Or their own power A long awful timeO
I look'd upon them still they were the sameO
The frozen God still bending to the earthM3
And the sad Goddess weeping at his feetA
Moneta silent Without stay or propY3
But my own weak mortality I boreZ
The load of this eternal quietudeA
The unchanging gloom and the three fixed shapesU2
Ponderous upon my senses a whole moonI2
For by my burning brain I measured sureZ3
Her silver seasons shedded on the nightA
And every day by day methought I grewC
More gaunt and ghostly Oftentimes I pray'dA
Intense that death would take me from the valeU2
And all its burthens gasping with despairV
Of change hour after hour I curs'd myselfU3
Until old Saturn rais'd his faded eyesU2
And look'd around and saw his kingdom goneI2
And all the gloom and sorrow of the placeU2
And that fair kneeling Goddess at his feetA
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As the moist scent of flowers and grass and leavesU2
Fills forest dells with a pervading airV
Known to the woodland nostril so the wordsU2
Of Saturn fill'd the mossy glooms aroundA
Even to the hollows of time eaten oaksU2
And to the windings of the foxes' holeU2
With sad low tones while thus he spoke and sentA
Strange moanings to the solitary PanI2
Moan brethren moan for we are swallow'd upL2
And buried from all godlike exerciseU2
Of influence benign on planets paleU2
And peaceful sway upon man's harvestingL
And all those acts which Deity supremeO
Doth ease its heart of love in Moan and wailU2
Moan brethren moan for lo the rebel spheresU2
Spin round the stars their ancient courses keepD
Clouds still with shadowy moisture haunt the earthM3
Still suck their fill of light from sun and moonI2
Still buds the tree and still the seashores murmurB3
There is no death in all the universeU2
No smell of death There shall be death Moan moanI2
Moan Cybele moan for thy pernicious babesU2
Weak as the reed weak feeble as my voiceU2
Oh Oh the pain the pain of feeblenessU2
Moan moan for still I thaw or give me helpA4
Throw down those imps and give me victoryA
Let me hear other groans and trumpets blownI2
Of triumph calm and hymns of festivalU2
From the gold peaks of heaven's high piled cloudsU2
Voices of soft proclaim and silver stirB3
Of strings in hollow shells and there shall beA
Beautiful things made new for the surpriseU2
Of the sky children So he feebly ceasedA
With such a poor and sickly sounding pauseU2
Methought I heard some old man of the earthM3
Bewailing earthly loss nor could my eyesU2
And ears act with that unison of senseU2
Which marries sweet sound with the grace of formO
And dolorous accent from a tragic harpB4
With large limb'd visions More I scrutinizedA
Still fixt he sat beneath the sable treesU2
Whose arms spread straggling in wild serpent formsU2
With leaves all hush'd his awful presence thereV
Now all was silent gave a deadly lieA
To what I erewhile heard only his lipsU2
Trembled amid the white curls of his beardA
They told the truth though round the snowy locksU2
Hung nobly as upon the face of heavenI2
A mid day fleece of clouds Thea aroseU2
And stretcht her white arm through the hollow darkL
Pointing some whither whereat he too roseU2
Like a vast giant seen by men at seaA
To grow pale from the waves at dull midnightA
They melted from my sight into the woodsU2
Ere I could turn Moneta cry'd These twainI2
Are speeding to the families of griefF
Where rooft in by black rocks they waste in painI2
And darkness for no hope And she spake onI2
As ye may read who can unwearied passU2
Onward from the antechamber of this dreamO
Where even at the open doors awhileU2
I must delay and glean my memoryA
Of her high phrase perhaps no further dareV
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CANTO IIA
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Mortal that thou may'st understand arightA
I humanize my sayings to thine earH3
Making comparisons of earthly thingsU2
Or thou might'st better listen to the windA
Whose language is to thee a barren noiseU2
Though it blows legend laden thro' the treesU2
In melancholy realms big tears are shedA
More sorrow like to this and such like woeU2
Too huge for mortal tongue or pen of scribeL3
The Titans fierce self hid or prison boundA
Groan for the old allegiance once moreZ
Listening in their doom for Saturn's voiceU2
But one of the whole eagle brood still keepsU2
His sovereignty and rule and majestyA
Blazing Hyperion on his orbed fireB3
Still sits still snuffs the incense teeming upL2
From Man to the Sun's God yet insecureB3
For as upon the earth dire prodigiesU2
Fright and perplex so also shudders heA
Not at dog's howl or gloom bird's hated screechP
Or the familiar visiting of oneI2
Upon the first toll of his passing bellU2
Or prophesyings of the midnight lampC4
But horrors portioned to a giant nerveN3
Make great Hyperion ache His palace brightA
Bastion'd with pyramids of shining goldA
And touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisksU2
Glares a blood red thro' all the thousand courtsU2
Arches and domes and fiery galleriesU2
And all its curtains of Aurorian cloudsU2
Flash angerly when he would taste the wreathsU2
Of incense breath'd aloft from sacred hillsU2
Instead of sweets his ample palate takesU2
Savour of poisonous brass and metals sickL
Wherefore when harbour'd in the sleepy WestA
After the full completion of fair dayA
For rest divine upon exalted couchD4
And slumber in the arms of melodyA
He paces through the pleasant hours of easeU2
With strides colossal on from hall to hallU2
While far within each aisle and deep recessU2
His winged minions in close clusters standA
Amaz'd and full of fear like anxious menI2
Who on a wide plain gather in sad troopsU2
When earthquakes jar their battlements and towersU2
Even now where Saturn rous'd from icy tranceU2
Goes step for step with Thea from yon woodsU2
Hyperion leaving twilight in the rearW3
Is sloping to the threshold of the WestA
Thither we tend Now in the clear light I stoodA
Reliev'd from the dusk vale MnemosyneI2
Was sitting on a square edg'd polish'd stoneI2
That in its lucid depth reflected pureZ3
Her priestess' garments My quick eyes ran onI2
From stately nave to nave from vault to vaultA
Through bow'rs of fragrant and enwreathed lightA
And diamond paved lustrous long arcadesU2
Anon rush'd by the bright HyperionI2
His flaming robes stream'd out beyond his heelsU2
And gave a roar as if of earthy fireB3
That scar'd away the meek ethereal hoursU2
And made their dove wings tremble On he flaredA

John Keats



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