On The Platonic 'ideal' As It Was Understood By Aristotle. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Ye sister Pow'rs who o'er the sacred grovesA
Preside and Thou fair mother of them allB
Mnemosyne and thou who in thy grotC
Immense reclined at leisure hast in chargeD
The Archives and the ord'nances of JoveE
And dost record the festivals of heav'nF
Eternity Inform us who is HeG
That great Original by Nature chos'nF
To be the Archetype of Human kindC
Unchangeable Immortal with the polesH
Themselves coaeval One yet ev'rywhereI
An image of the god who gave him BeingJ
Twin brother of the Goddess born from JoveE
He dwells not in his Father's mind but thoughK
Of common nature with ourselves existsL
Apart and occupies a local homeM
Whether companion of the stars he spendC
Eternal ages roaming at his willN
From sphere to sphere the tenfold heav'ns or dwellO
On the moon's side that nearest neighbours EarthP
Or torpid on the banks of Lethe sitC
Among the multitude of souls ordair'dC
To flesh and blood or whether as may chanceQ
That vast and giant model of our kindC
In some far distant region of this globeR
Sequester'd stalk with lifted head on highE
O'ertow'ring Atlas on whose shoulders restC
The stars terrific even to the GodsS
Never the Theban Seer whose blindness provedC
His best illumination Him beheldC
In secret vision never him the sonF
Of Pleione amid the noiseless nightC
Descending to the prophet choir reveal'dC
Him never knew th'Assyrian priest who yetC
The ancestry of Ninus chroniclesT
And Belus and Osiris far renown'dC
Nor even Thrice great Hermes although skill'dC
So deep in myst'ry to the worshippersU
Of Isis show'd a prodigy like HimV
And thou who hast immortalized the shadesW
Of Academus if the school receivedC
This monster of the Fancy first from TheeG
Either recall at once the banish'd bardsW
To thy Republic or thyself evinc'dC
A wilder Fabulist go also forthX

John Milton



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