That Nature Is Not Subject To Decay. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZYA2B2C2CD2E2F2 G2H2G2I2G2G2J2G2G2K2 G2G2L2M2G2N2G2YO2P2Q 2R2G2S2T2U2G2V2W2XX2 Y2Z2G2I2A3B3O2G2T2YG 2G2C2C3D3YE3F3| Ah how the Human Mind wearies herself | A |
| With her own wand'rings and involved in gloom | B |
| Impenetrable speculates amiss | C |
| Measuring in her folly things divine | D |
| By human laws inscrib'd on adamant | E |
| By laws of Man's device and counsels fix'd | F |
| For ever by the hours that pass and die | G |
| How shall the face of Nature then be plow'd | H |
| Into deep wrinkles and shall years at last | I |
| On the great Parent fix a sterile curse | J |
| Shall even she confess old age and halt | K |
| And palsy smitten shake her starry brows | L |
| Shall foul Antiquity with rust and drought | M |
| And famine vex the radiant worlds above | N |
| Shall Time's unsated maw crave and engulf | O |
| The very heav'ns that regulate his flight | P |
| And was the Sire of all able to fence | Q |
| His works and to uphold the circling worlds | R |
| But through improvident and heedless haste | S |
| Let slip th'occasion So then All is lost | T |
| And in some future evil hour yon arch | U |
| Shall crumble and come thund'ring down the poles | V |
| Jar in collision the Olympian King | W |
| Fall with his throne and Pallas holding forth | X |
| The terrors of her Gorgon shield in vain | Y |
| Shall rush to the abyss like Vulcan hurl'd | Z |
| Down into Lemnos through the gate of heav'n | Y |
| Thou also with precipitated wheels | A2 |
| Phoebus thy own son's fall shalt imitate | B2 |
| With hideous ruin shalt impress the Deep | C2 |
| Suddenly and the flood shall reek and hiss | C |
| At the extinction of the Lamp of Day | D2 |
| Then too shall Haemus cloven to his base | E2 |
| Be shattered and the huge Ceraunian hills | F2 |
| Once weapons of Tartarean Dis immersed | G2 |
| In Erebus shall fill Himself with fear | H2 |
| No The Almighty Father surer lay'd | G2 |
| His deep foundations and providing well | I2 |
| For the event of all the scales of Fate | G2 |
| Suspended in just equipoise and bade | G2 |
| His universal works from age to age | J2 |
| One tenour hold perpetual undisturb'd | G2 |
| Hence the Prime Mover wheels itself about | G2 |
| Continual day by day and with it bears | K2 |
| In social measure swift the heav'ns around | G2 |
| Not tardier now is Saturn than of old | G2 |
| Nor radiant less the burning casque of Mars | L2 |
| Phoebus his vigour unimpair'd still shows | M2 |
| Th'effulgence of his youth nor needs the God | G2 |
| A downward course that he may warm the vales | N2 |
| But ever rich in influence runs his road | G2 |
| Sign after sign through all the heav'nly zone | Y |
| Beautiful as at first ascends the star | O2 |
| From odorif'rous Ind whose office is | P2 |
| To gather home betimes th'ethereal flock | Q2 |
| To pour them o'er the skies again at Eve | R2 |
| And to discriminate the Night and Day | G2 |
| Still Cynthia's changeful horn waxes and wanes | S2 |
| Alternate and with arms extended still | T2 |
| She welcomes to her breast her brother's beams | U2 |
| Nor have the elements deserted yet | G2 |
| Their functions thunder with as loud a stroke | V2 |
| As erst smites through the rocks and scatters them | W2 |
| The East still howls still the relentless North | X |
| Invades the shudd'ring Scythian still he breathes | X2 |
| The Winter and still rolls the storms along | Y2 |
| The King of Ocean with his wonted force | Z2 |
| Beats on Pelorus o'er the Deep is heard | G2 |
| The hoarse alarm of Triton's sounding shell | I2 |
| Nor swim the monsters of th'Aegean sea | A3 |
| In shallows or beneath diminish'd waves | B3 |
| Thou too thy antient vegetative pow'r | O2 |
| Enjoy'st O Earth Narcissus still is sweet | G2 |
| And Phoebus still thy Favourite and still | T2 |
| Thy Fav'rite Cytherea both retain | Y |
| Their beauty nor the mountains ore enrich'd | G2 |
| For punishment of Man with purer gold | G2 |
| Teem'd ever or with brighter gems the Deep | C2 |
| Thus in unbroken series all proceeds | C3 |
| And shall till wide involving either pole | D3 |
| And the immensity of yonder heav'n | Y |
| The final flames of destiny absorb | E3 |
| The world consum'd in one enormous pyre | F3 |
John Milton
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