Hyperion: Book Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIJKLMNOPQRS TUVWXYTZA2B2NC2D2TE2 F2G2H2I2J2K2L2TTM2N2 O2TTBP2Q2C2R2TTS2TT2 U2V2W2TTLX2Y2Z2TLA3B 3TC3LC2LD3E3LTE3Q2TL F3LTLE3M2NM2TG3H2E3E 3H3I3DLC2TLLLITLTLTL LLE3E3J3TLTE3G2LK3L3 M3LTTN3TO3LP3| Thus in altemate uproar and sad peace | A |
| Amazed were those Titans utterly | B |
| O leave them Muse O leave them to their woes | C |
| For thou art weak to sing such tumults dire | D |
| A solitary sorrow best befits | E |
| Thy lips and antheming a lonely grief | F |
| Leave them O Muse for thou anon wilt find | G |
| Many a fallen old Divinity | B |
| Wandering in vain about bewildered shores | H |
| Meantime touch piously the Delphic harp | I |
| And not a wind of heaven but will breathe | J |
| In aid soft warble from the Dorian flute | K |
| For lo 'tis for the Father of all verse | L |
| Flush everything that hath a vermeil hue | M |
| Let the rose glow intense and warm the air | N |
| And let the clouds of even and of morn | O |
| Float in voluptuous fleeces o'er the hills | P |
| Let the red wine within the goblet boil | Q |
| Cold as a bubbling well let faint lipp'd shells | R |
| On sands or in great deeps vermilion turn | S |
| Through all their labyrinths and let the maid | T |
| Blush keenly as with some warm kiss surpris'd | U |
| Chief isle of the embowered Cyclades | V |
| Rejoice O Delos with thine olives green | W |
| And poplars and lawn shading palms and beech | X |
| In which the Zephyr breathes the loudest song | Y |
| And hazels thick dark stemm'd beneath the shade | T |
| Apollo is once more the golden theme | Z |
| Where was he when the Giant of the sun | A2 |
| Stood bright amid the sorrow of his peers | B2 |
| Together had he left his mother fair | N |
| And his twin sister sleeping in their bower | C2 |
| And in the morning twilight wandered forth | D2 |
| Beside the osiers of a rivulet | T |
| Full ankle deep in lilies of the vale | E2 |
| The nightingale had ceas'd and a few stars | F2 |
| Were lingering in the heavens while the thrush | G2 |
| Began calm throated Throughout all the isle | H2 |
| There was no covert no retired cave | I2 |
| Unhaunted by the murmurous noise of waves | J2 |
| Though scarcely heard in many a green recess | K2 |
| He listen'd and he wept and his bright tears | L2 |
| Went trickling down the golden bow he held | T |
| Thus with half shut suffused eyes he stood | T |
| While from beneath some cumbrous boughs hard by | M2 |
| With solemn step an awful Goddess came | N2 |
| And there was purport in her looks for him | O2 |
| Which he with eager guess began to read | T |
| Perplex'd the while melodiously he said | T |
| How cam'st thou over the unfooted sea | B |
| Or hath that antique mien and robed form | P2 |
| Mov'd in these vales invisible till now | Q2 |
| Sure I have heard those vestments sweeping o'er | C2 |
| The fallen leaves when I have sat alone | R2 |
| In cool mid forest Surely I have traced | T |
| The rustle of those ample skirts about | T |
| These grassy solitudes and seen the flowers | S2 |
| Lift up their heads as still the whisper pass'd | T |
| Goddess I have beheld those eyes before | T2 |
| And their eternal calm and all that face | U2 |
| Or I have dream'd Yes said the supreme shape | V2 |
| Thou hast dream'd of me and awaking up | W2 |
| Didst find a lyre all golden by thy side | T |
| Whose strings touch'd by thy fingers all the vast | T |
| Unwearied ear of the whole universe | L |
| Listen'd in pain and pleasure at the birth | X2 |
| Of such new tuneful wonder Is't not strange | Y2 |
| That thou shouldst weep so gifted Tell me youth | Z2 |
| What sorrow thou canst feel for I am sad | T |
| When thou dost shed a tear explain thy griefs | L |
| To one who in this lonely isle hath been | A3 |
| The watcher of thy sleep and hours of life | B3 |
| From the young day when first thy infant hand | T |
| Pluck'd witless the weak flowers till thine arm | C3 |
| Could bend that bow heroic to all times | L |
| Show thy heart's secret to an ancient Power | C2 |
| Who hath forsaken old and sacred thrones | L |
| For prophecies of thee and for the sake | D3 |
| Of loveliness new born Apollo then | E3 |
| With sudden scrutiny and gloomless eyes | L |
| Thus answer'd while his white melodious throat | T |
| Throbb'd with the syllables Mnemosyne | E3 |
| Thy name is on my tongue I know not how | Q2 |
| Why should I tell thee what thou so well seest | T |
| Why should I strive to show what from thy lips | L |
| Would come no mystery For me dark dark | F3 |
| And painful vile oblivion seals my eyes | L |
| I strive to search wherefore I am so sad | T |
| Until a melancholy numbs my limbs | L |
| And then upon the grass I sit and moan | E3 |
| Like one who once had wings O why should I | M2 |
| Feel curs'd and thwarted when the liegeless air | N |
| Yields to my step aspirant why should I | M2 |
| Spurn the green turf as hateful to my feet | T |
| Goddess benign point forth some unknown thing | G3 |
| Are there not other regions than this isle | H2 |
| What are the stars There is the sun the sun | E3 |
| And the most patient brilliance of the moon | E3 |
| And stars by thousands Point me out the way | H3 |
| To any one particular beauteous star | I3 |
| And I will flit into it with my lyre | D |
| And make its silvery splendor pant with bliss | L |
| I have heard the cloudy thunder Where is power | C2 |
| Whose hand whose essence what divinity | T |
| Makes this alarum in the elements | L |
| While I here idle listen on the shores | L |
| In fearless yet in aching ignorance | L |
| O tell me lonely Goddess by thy harp | I |
| That waileth every morn and eventide | T |
| Tell me why thus I rave about these groves | L |
| Mute thou remainest Mute yet I can read | T |
| A wondrous lesson in thy silent face | L |
| Knowledge enormous makes a God of me | T |
| Names deeds gray legends dire events rebellions | L |
| Majesties sovran voices agonies | L |
| Creations and destroyings all at once | L |
| Pour into the wide hollows of my brain | E3 |
| And deify me as if some blithe wine | E3 |
| Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk | J3 |
| And so become immortal Thus the God | T |
| While his enkindled eyes with level glance | L |
| Beneath his white soft temples steadfast kept | T |
| Trembling with light upon Mnemosyne | E3 |
| Soon wild commotions shook him and made flush | G2 |
| All the immortal fairness of his limbs | L |
| Most like the struggle at the gate of death | K3 |
| Or liker still to one who should take leave | L3 |
| Of pale immortal death and with a pang | M3 |
| As hot as death's is chill with fierce convulse | L |
| Die into life so young Apollo anguish'd | T |
| His very hair his golden tresses famed | T |
| Kept undulation round his eager neck | N3 |
| During the pain Mnemosyne upheld | T |
| Her arms as one who prophesied At length | O3 |
| Apollo shriek'd and lo from all his limbs | L |
| Celestial | P3 |
John Keats
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