Il Penseroso Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Hence vain deluding joyesA
The brood of folly without father bredB
How little you bestedC
Or fill the fix egrave d mind with all your toyesA
Dwell in som idle brainD
And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possessA
As thick and numberlessA
As the gay motes that people the Sun BeamsA
Or likest hovering dreamsA
The fickle Pensioners of Morpheus trainD
But hail thou Goddes sage and holyE
Hail divinest MelancholyE
Whose Saintly visage is too brightF
To hit the Sense of human sightF
And therfore to our weaker viewG
Ore laid with black staid Wisdoms hueG
Black but such as in esteemH
Prince Memnons sister might beseemH
Or that Starr'd Ethiope Queen that stroveI
To set her beauties praise aboveJ
The Sea Nymphs and their powers offendedK
Yet thou art higher far descendedK
Thee bright hair'd Vesta long of yoreL
To solitary Saturn boreL
His daughter she in Saturns raignD
Such mixture was not held a stainD
Oft in glimmering Bowres and gladesA
He met her and in secret shadesA
Of woody Ida's inmost groveI
Whilst yet there was no fear of JoveI
Com pensive Nun devout and pureM
Sober stedfast and demureM
All in a robe of darkest grainD
Flowing with majestick trainD
And sable stole of Cipres LawnD
Over thy decent shoulders drawnD
Com but keep thy wonted stateN
With eev'n step and musing gateN
And looks commercing with the skiesA
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyesA
There held in holy passion stillO
Forget thy self to Marble tillO
With a sad Leaden downward castP
Thou fix them on the earth as fastP
And joyn with thee calm Peace and QuietQ
Spare Fast that oft with gods doth dietQ
And hears the Muses in a ringR
Ay round about Joves Altar singR
And adde to these retir egrave d LeasureS
That in trim Gardens takes his pleasureS
But first and chiefest with thee bringR
Him that yon soars on golden wingR
Guiding the fiery wheel egrave d throneD
The Cherub ContemplationD
And the mute Silence hist alongT
'Less Philomel will daign a SongT
In her sweetest saddest plightF
Smoothing the rugged brow of nightF
While Cynthia checks her Dragon yokeU
Gently o're th'accustom'd OkeU
Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of follyE
Most musicall most melancholyE
Thee Chauntress oft the Woods amongU
I woo to hear thy eeven SongU
And missing thee I walk unseenD
On the dry smooth shaven GreenD
To behold the wandring MoonD
Riding neer her highest noonD
Like one that had bin led astrayV
Through the Heav'ns wide pathles wayV
And oft as if her head she bow'dW
Stooping through a fleecy cloudW
Oft on a Plat of rising groundX
I hear the far off Curfeu soundX
Over som wide water'd shoarV
Swinging slow with sullen roarV
Or if the Ayr will not permitY
Som still remov egrave d place will fitY
Where glowing Embers through the roomH
Teach light to counterfeit a gloomH
Far from all resort of mirthZ
Save the Cricket on the hearthA2
Or the Belmans drousie charmH
To bless the dores from nightly harmH
Or let my Lamp at midnight hourV
Be seen in som high lonely TowrV
Where I may oft out watch the BearV
With thrice great Hermes or unsphearV
The spirit of Plato to unfoldB2
What Worlds or what vast Regions holdB2
The immortal mind that hath forsookU
Her mansion in this fleshly nookU
And of those D mons that are foundX
In fire air flood or under groundX
Whose power hath a true consentC2
With Planet or with ElementD2
Som time let Gorgeous TragedyE
In Scepter'd Pall com sweeping byE2
Presenting Thebs or Pelops lineD
Or the tale of Troy divineD
Or what though rare of later ageF2
Ennobl egrave d hath the Buskind stageF2
But O sad Virgin that thy powerV
Might raise Mus us from his bowerV
Or bid the soul of Orpheus singU
Such notes as warbled to the stringU
Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheekU
And made Hell grant what Love did seekU
Or call up him that left half toldB2
The story of Cambuscan boldB2
Of Camball and of AlgarsifeI
And who had Canace to wifeI
That own'd the vertuous Ring and GlassA
And of the wondrous Hors of BrassA
On which the Tartar King did rideG2
And if ought els great Bards besideG2
In sage and solemn tunes have sungU
Of Turneys and of Trophies hungU
Of Forests and inchantments drearV
Where more is meant then meets the earV
Thus night oft see me in thy pale careerV
Till civil suited Morn appeerV
Not trickt and frounc't as she was wontH2
With the Attick Boy to huntD2
But Cherchef't in a comly CloudW
While rocking Winds are Piping loudW
Or usher'd with a shower stillO
When the gust hath blown his fillO
Ending on the russling LeavesA
With minute drops from off the EavesA
And when the Sun begins to flingU
His flaring beams me Goddes bringU
To arch egrave d walks of twilight grovesA
And shadows brown that Sylvan lovesA
Of Pine or monumental OakeU
Where the rude Ax with heav egrave d strokeU
Was never heard the Nymphs to dauntI2
Or fright them from their hallow'd hauntI2
There in close covert by som BrookU
Where no profaner eye may lookU
Hide me from Day's garish eieJ2
While the Bee with Honied thieA2
That at her flowry work doth singU
And the Waters murmuringU
With such consort as they keepK2
Entice the dewy feather'd SleepK2
And let som strange mysterious dreamH
Wave at his Wings in Airy streamH
Of lively portrature display'dL2
Softly on my eye lids laidL2
And as I wake sweet musick breathA2
Above about or underneathA2
Sent by som spirit to mortals goodM2
Or th'unseen Genius of the WoodM2
But let my due feet never failN2
To walk the studious Cloysters paleN2
And love the high embow egrave d RoofI
With antick Pillars massy proofI
And storied Windows richly dightM2
Casting a dimm religious lightM2
There let the pealing Organ blowO2
To the full voic'd Quire belowO2
In Service high and Anthems cleerV
As may with sweetnes through mine earV
Dissolve me into extasiesA
And bring all Heav'n before mine eyesA
And may at last my weary ageF2
Find out the peacefull hermitageP2
The Hairy Gown and Mossy CellQ2
Where I may sit and rightly spellQ2
Of every Star that Heav'n doth shewG
And every Herb that sips the dewG
Till old experience do attainD
To somthing like Prophetic strainD
These pleasures Melancholy giveI
And I with thee will choose to liveI

John Milton



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