Il Penseroso Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADAAAADEEFFGGHHIJ KKLLDDAAIIMMDDDDNNAA OOPPQQRRSSRRDDTTFFUU EEUUDDDDVVWWXXVVYYHH ZA2HHVVVVB2B2UUXXC2D 2EE2DDF2F2VVUUUUB2B2 IIAAG2G2UUVVVVH2D2WW OOAAUUAAUUI2I2UUJ2A2 UUK2K2HHL2L2A2A2M2M2 N2N2IIM2M2O2O2VVAAF2 P2Q2Q2GGDDIIHence vain deluding joyes | A |
The brood of folly without father bred | B |
How little you bested | C |
Or fill the fix egrave d mind with all your toyes | A |
Dwell in som idle brain | D |
And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess | A |
As thick and numberless | A |
As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams | A |
Or likest hovering dreams | A |
The fickle Pensioners of Morpheus train | D |
But hail thou Goddes sage and holy | E |
Hail divinest Melancholy | E |
Whose Saintly visage is too bright | F |
To hit the Sense of human sight | F |
And therfore to our weaker view | G |
Ore laid with black staid Wisdoms hue | G |
Black but such as in esteem | H |
Prince Memnons sister might beseem | H |
Or that Starr'd Ethiope Queen that strove | I |
To set her beauties praise above | J |
The Sea Nymphs and their powers offended | K |
Yet thou art higher far descended | K |
Thee bright hair'd Vesta long of yore | L |
To solitary Saturn bore | L |
His daughter she in Saturns raign | D |
Such mixture was not held a stain | D |
Oft in glimmering Bowres and glades | A |
He met her and in secret shades | A |
Of woody Ida's inmost grove | I |
Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove | I |
Com pensive Nun devout and pure | M |
Sober stedfast and demure | M |
All in a robe of darkest grain | D |
Flowing with majestick train | D |
And sable stole of Cipres Lawn | D |
Over thy decent shoulders drawn | D |
Com but keep thy wonted state | N |
With eev'n step and musing gate | N |
And looks commercing with the skies | A |
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes | A |
There held in holy passion still | O |
Forget thy self to Marble till | O |
With a sad Leaden downward cast | P |
Thou fix them on the earth as fast | P |
And joyn with thee calm Peace and Quiet | Q |
Spare Fast that oft with gods doth diet | Q |
And hears the Muses in a ring | R |
Ay round about Joves Altar sing | R |
And adde to these retir egrave d Leasure | S |
That in trim Gardens takes his pleasure | S |
But first and chiefest with thee bring | R |
Him that yon soars on golden wing | R |
Guiding the fiery wheel egrave d throne | D |
The Cherub Contemplation | D |
And the mute Silence hist along | T |
'Less Philomel will daign a Song | T |
In her sweetest saddest plight | F |
Smoothing the rugged brow of night | F |
While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke | U |
Gently o're th'accustom'd Oke | U |
Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly | E |
Most musicall most melancholy | E |
Thee Chauntress oft the Woods among | U |
I woo to hear thy eeven Song | U |
And missing thee I walk unseen | D |
On the dry smooth shaven Green | D |
To behold the wandring Moon | D |
Riding neer her highest noon | D |
Like one that had bin led astray | V |
Through the Heav'ns wide pathles way | V |
And oft as if her head she bow'd | W |
Stooping through a fleecy cloud | W |
Oft on a Plat of rising ground | X |
I hear the far off Curfeu sound | X |
Over som wide water'd shoar | V |
Swinging slow with sullen roar | V |
Or if the Ayr will not permit | Y |
Som still remov egrave d place will fit | Y |
Where glowing Embers through the room | H |
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom | H |
Far from all resort of mirth | Z |
Save the Cricket on the hearth | A2 |
Or the Belmans drousie charm | H |
To bless the dores from nightly harm | H |
Or let my Lamp at midnight hour | V |
Be seen in som high lonely Towr | V |
Where I may oft out watch the Bear | V |
With thrice great Hermes or unsphear | V |
The spirit of Plato to unfold | B2 |
What Worlds or what vast Regions hold | B2 |
The immortal mind that hath forsook | U |
Her mansion in this fleshly nook | U |
And of those D mons that are found | X |
In fire air flood or under ground | X |
Whose power hath a true consent | C2 |
With Planet or with Element | D2 |
Som time let Gorgeous Tragedy | E |
In Scepter'd Pall com sweeping by | E2 |
Presenting Thebs or Pelops line | D |
Or the tale of Troy divine | D |
Or what though rare of later age | F2 |
Ennobl egrave d hath the Buskind stage | F2 |
But O sad Virgin that thy power | V |
Might raise Mus us from his bower | V |
Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing | U |
Such notes as warbled to the string | U |
Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek | U |
And made Hell grant what Love did seek | U |
Or call up him that left half told | B2 |
The story of Cambuscan bold | B2 |
Of Camball and of Algarsife | I |
And who had Canace to wife | I |
That own'd the vertuous Ring and Glass | A |
And of the wondrous Hors of Brass | A |
On which the Tartar King did ride | G2 |
And if ought els great Bards beside | G2 |
In sage and solemn tunes have sung | U |
Of Turneys and of Trophies hung | U |
Of Forests and inchantments drear | V |
Where more is meant then meets the ear | V |
Thus night oft see me in thy pale career | V |
Till civil suited Morn appeer | V |
Not trickt and frounc't as she was wont | H2 |
With the Attick Boy to hunt | D2 |
But Cherchef't in a comly Cloud | W |
While rocking Winds are Piping loud | W |
Or usher'd with a shower still | O |
When the gust hath blown his fill | O |
Ending on the russling Leaves | A |
With minute drops from off the Eaves | A |
And when the Sun begins to fling | U |
His flaring beams me Goddes bring | U |
To arch egrave d walks of twilight groves | A |
And shadows brown that Sylvan loves | A |
Of Pine or monumental Oake | U |
Where the rude Ax with heav egrave d stroke | U |
Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt | I2 |
Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt | I2 |
There in close covert by som Brook | U |
Where no profaner eye may look | U |
Hide me from Day's garish eie | J2 |
While the Bee with Honied thie | A2 |
That at her flowry work doth sing | U |
And the Waters murmuring | U |
With such consort as they keep | K2 |
Entice the dewy feather'd Sleep | K2 |
And let som strange mysterious dream | H |
Wave at his Wings in Airy stream | H |
Of lively portrature display'd | L2 |
Softly on my eye lids laid | L2 |
And as I wake sweet musick breath | A2 |
Above about or underneath | A2 |
Sent by som spirit to mortals good | M2 |
Or th'unseen Genius of the Wood | M2 |
But let my due feet never fail | N2 |
To walk the studious Cloysters pale | N2 |
And love the high embow egrave d Roof | I |
With antick Pillars massy proof | I |
And storied Windows richly dight | M2 |
Casting a dimm religious light | M2 |
There let the pealing Organ blow | O2 |
To the full voic'd Quire below | O2 |
In Service high and Anthems cleer | V |
As may with sweetnes through mine ear | V |
Dissolve me into extasies | A |
And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes | A |
And may at last my weary age | F2 |
Find out the peacefull hermitage | P2 |
The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell | Q2 |
Where I may sit and rightly spell | Q2 |
Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew | G |
And every Herb that sips the dew | G |
Till old experience do attain | D |
To somthing like Prophetic strain | D |
These pleasures Melancholy give | I |
And I with thee will choose to live | I |
John Milton
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