On The Platonic 'ideal' As It Was Understood By Aristotle. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFCHIJEKLMCNOP CCQCRECSCCFCCCTCCUVW CGWCXYe sister Pow'rs who o'er the sacred groves | A |
Preside and Thou fair mother of them all | B |
Mnemosyne and thou who in thy grot | C |
Immense reclined at leisure hast in charge | D |
The Archives and the ord'nances of Jove | E |
And dost record the festivals of heav'n | F |
Eternity Inform us who is He | G |
That great Original by Nature chos'n | F |
To be the Archetype of Human kind | C |
Unchangeable Immortal with the poles | H |
Themselves coaeval One yet ev'rywhere | I |
An image of the god who gave him Being | J |
Twin brother of the Goddess born from Jove | E |
He dwells not in his Father's mind but though | K |
Of common nature with ourselves exists | L |
Apart and occupies a local home | M |
Whether companion of the stars he spend | C |
Eternal ages roaming at his will | N |
From sphere to sphere the tenfold heav'ns or dwell | O |
On the moon's side that nearest neighbours Earth | P |
Or torpid on the banks of Lethe sit | C |
Among the multitude of souls ordair'd | C |
To flesh and blood or whether as may chance | Q |
That vast and giant model of our kind | C |
In some far distant region of this globe | R |
Sequester'd stalk with lifted head on high | E |
O'ertow'ring Atlas on whose shoulders rest | C |
The stars terrific even to the Gods | S |
Never the Theban Seer whose blindness proved | C |
His best illumination Him beheld | C |
In secret vision never him the son | F |
Of Pleione amid the noiseless night | C |
Descending to the prophet choir reveal'd | C |
Him never knew th'Assyrian priest who yet | C |
The ancestry of Ninus chronicles | T |
And Belus and Osiris far renown'd | C |
Nor even Thrice great Hermes although skill'd | C |
So deep in myst'ry to the worshippers | U |
Of Isis show'd a prodigy like Him | V |
And thou who hast immortalized the shades | W |
Of Academus if the school received | C |
This monster of the Fancy first from Thee | G |
Either recall at once the banish'd bards | W |
To thy Republic or thyself evinc'd | C |
A wilder Fabulist go also forth | X |
John Milton
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