From 'samson Agonistes' I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDBEFGHBBHIGHBB BHBHHHHHBBBBBB BBJJCCK CCBBHHB LDMNKKH BBCCBBH OOCCHHCOH how comely it is and how reviving | A |
To the Spirits of just men long opprest | B |
When God into the hands of thir deliverer | C |
Puts invincible might | B |
To quell the mighty of the Earth th' oppressour | C |
The brute and boist'rous force of violent men | D |
Hardy and industrious to support | B |
Tyrannic power but raging to pursue | E |
The righteous and all such as honour Truth | F |
He all thir Ammunition | G |
And feats of War defeats | H |
With plain Heroic magnitude of mind | B |
And celestial vigour arm'd | B |
Thir Armories and Magazins contemns | H |
Renders them useless while | I |
With winged expedition | G |
Swift as the lightning glance he executes | H |
His errand on the wicked who surpris'd | B |
Lose thir defence distracted and amaz'd | B |
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ALL is best though we oft doubt | B |
What th' unsearchable dispose | H |
Of highest wisdom brings about | B |
And ever best found in the close | H |
Oft he seems to hide his face | H |
But unexpectedly returns | H |
And to his faithful Champion hath in place | H |
Bore witness gloriously whence Gaza mourns | H |
And all that band them to resist | B |
His uncontroulable intent | B |
His servants he with new acquist | B |
Of true experience from this great event | B |
With peace and consolation hath dismist | B |
And calm of mind all passion spent | B |
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O FOR some honest lover's ghost | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Some kind unbodied post | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Sent from the shades below | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp I strangely long to know | J |
Whether the noble chaplets wear | C |
Those that their mistress' scorn did bear | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Or those that were used kindly | K |
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For whatsoe'er they tell us here | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp To make those sufferings dear | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp 'Twill there I fear be found | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp That to the being crown'd | B |
T' have loved alone will not suffice | H |
Unless we also have been wise | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And have our loves enjoy'd | B |
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What posture can we think him in | L |
nbsp nbsp nbsp That here unloved again | D |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Departs and 's thither gone | M |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Where each sits by his own | N |
Or how can that Elysium be | K |
Where I my mistress still must see | K |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Circled in other's arms | H |
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For there the judges all are just | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And Sophonisba must | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Be his whom she held dear | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Not his who loved her here | C |
The sweet Philoclea since she died | B |
Lies by her Pirocles his side | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Not by Amphialus | H |
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Some bays perchance or myrtle bough | O |
nbsp nbsp nbsp For difference crowns the brow | O |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Of those kind souls that were | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The noble martyrs here | C |
And if that be the only odds | H |
As who can tell ye kinder gods | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Give me the woman here | C |
John Milton
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