Book Ii - Part 02 - Atomic Motions Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Now come I will untangle for thy steps	A
Now by what motions the begetting bodies	B
Of the world stuff beget the varied world	C
And then forever resolve it when begot	D
And by what force they are constrained to this	E
And what the speed appointed unto them	F
Wherewith to travel down the vast inane	G
Do thou remember to yield thee to my words	H
For truly matter coheres not crowds not tight	I
Since we behold each thing to wane away	J
And we observe how all flows on and off	K
As 'twere with age old time and from our eyes	L
How eld withdraws each object at the end	M
Albeit the sum is seen to bide the same	N
Unharmed because these motes that leave each thing	O
Diminish what they part from but endow	P
With increase those to which in turn they come	Q
Constraining these to wither in old age	R
And those to flower at the prime and yet	S
Biding not long among them Thus the sum	Q
Forever is replenished and we live	T
As mortals by eternal give and take	U
The nations wax the nations wane away	J
In a brief space the generations pass	V
And like to runners hand the lamp of life	W
One unto other	X
But if thou believe	Y
That the primordial germs of things can stop	Z
And in their stopping give new motions birth	A2
Afar thou wanderest from the road of truth	B2
For since they wander through the void inane	G
All the primordial germs of things must needs	C2
Be borne along either by weight their own	D2
Or haply by another's blow without	E2
For when in their incessancy so oft	F2
They meet and clash it comes to pass amain	D2
They leap asunder face to face not strange	G2
Being most hard and solid in their weights	H2
And naught opposing motion from behind	I2
And that more clearly thou perceive how all	J2
These mites of matter are darted round about	E2
Recall to mind how nowhere in the sum	Q
Of All exists a bottom nowhere is	K2
A realm of rest for primal bodies since	L2
As amply shown and proved by reason sure	M2
Space has no bound nor measure and extends	N2
Unmetered forth in all directions round	O2
Since this stands certain thus 'tis out of doubt	E2
No rest is rendered to the primal bodies	B
Along the unfathomable inane but rather	X
Inveterately plied by motions mixed	P2
Some at their jamming bound aback and leave	Y
Huge gaps between and some from off the blow	Q2
Are hurried about with spaces small between	D2
And all which brought together with slight gaps	R2
In more condensed union bound aback	S2
Linked by their own all intertangled shapes	T2
These form the irrefragable roots of rocks	U2
And the brute bulks of iron and what else	V2
Is of their kind	I2
The rest leap far asunder far recoil	W2
Leaving huge gaps between and these supply	X2
For us thin air and splendour lights of the sun	D2
And many besides wander the mighty void	Y2
Cast back from unions of existing things	Z2
Nowhere accepted in the universe	A3
And nowise linked in motions to the rest	B3
And of this fact as I record it here	C3
An image a type goes on before our eyes	L
Present each moment for behold whenever	X
The sun's light and the rays let in pour down	D2
Across dark halls of houses thou wilt see	D3
The many mites in many a manner mixed	P2
Amid a void in the very light of the rays	E3
And battling on as in eternal strife	W
And in battalions contending without halt	F3
In meetings partings harried up and down	D2
From this thou mayest conjecture of what sort	G3
The ceaseless tossing of primordial seeds	C2
Amid the mightier void at least so far	H3
As small affair can for a vaster serve	I3
And by example put thee on the spoor	M2
Of knowledge For this reason too 'tis fit	J3
Thou turn thy mind the more unto these bodies	B
Which here are witnessed tumbling in the light	I
Namely because such tumblings are a sign	D2
That motions also of the primal stuff	K3
Secret and viewless lurk beneath behind	I2
For thou wilt mark here many a speck impelled	L3
By viewless blows to change its little course	M3
And beaten backwards to return again	D2
Hither and thither in all directions round	O2
Lo all their shifting movement is of old	N3
From the primeval atoms for the same	N
Primordial seeds of things first move of self	O3
And then those bodies built of unions small	J2
And nearest as it were unto the powers	P3
Of the primeval atoms are stirred up	Q3
By impulse of those atoms' unseen blows	R3
And these thereafter goad the next in size	L
Thus motion ascends from the primevals on	D2
And stage by stage emerges to our sense	S3
Until those objects also move which we	D3
Can mark in sunbeams though it not appears	T3
What blows do urge them	F
Herein wonder not	U3
How 'tis that while the seeds of things are all	J2
Moving forever the sum yet seems to stand	V3
Supremely still except in cases where	W3
A thing shows motion of its frame as whole	X3
For far beneath the ken of senses lies	L
The nature of those ultimates of the world	C
And so since those themselves thou canst not see	D3
Their motion also must they veil from men	D2
For mark indeed how things we can see oft	F2
Yet hide their motions when afar from us	Y3
Along the distant landscape Often thus	Y3
Upon a hillside will the woolly flocks	U2
Be cropping their goodly food and creeping about	E2
Whither the summons of the grass begemmed	E2
With the fresh dew is calling and the lambs	Z3
Well filled are frisking locking horns in sport	E2
Yet all for us seem blurred and blent afar	H3
A glint of white at rest on a green hill	A4
Again when mighty legions marching round	E2
Fill all the quarters of the plains below	Q2
Rousing a mimic warfare there the sheen	D2
Shoots up the sky and all the fields about	E2
Glitter with brass and from beneath a sound	E2
Goes forth from feet of stalwart soldiery	H3
And mountain walls smote by the shouting send	E2
The voices onward to the stars of heaven	D2
And hither and thither darts the cavalry	H3
And of a sudden down the midmost fields	B4
Charges with onset stout enough to rock	C4
The solid earth and yet some post there is	K2
Up the high mountains viewed from which they seem	D4
To stand a gleam at rest along the plains	E4
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Now what the speed to matter's atoms given	D2
Thou mayest in few my Memmius learn from this	E
When first the dawn is sprinkling with new light	E2
The lands and all the breed of birds abroad	E2
Flit round the trackless forests with liquid notes	F4
Filling the regions along the mellow air	H3
We see 'tis forthwith manifest to man	D2
How suddenly the risen sun is wont	E2
At such an hour to overspread and clothe	G4
The whole with its own splendour but the sun's	H4
Warm exhalations and this serene light	E2
Travel not down an empty void and thus	Y3
They are compelled more slowly to advance	I4
Whilst as it were they cleave the waves of air	H3
Nor one by one travel these particles	J4
Of the warm exhalations but are all	J2
Entangled and enmassed whereby at once	K4
Each is restrained by each and from without	E2
Checked till compelled more slowly to advance	I4
But the primordial atoms with their old	E2
Simple solidity when forth they travel	L4
Along the empty void all undelayed	E2
By aught outside them there and they each one	D2
Being one unit from nature of its parts	M4
Are borne to that one place on which they strive	T
Still to lay hold must then beyond a doubt	E2
Outstrip in speed and be more swiftly borne	D2
Than light of sun and over regions rush	N4
Of space much vaster in the self same time	O4
The sun's effulgence widens round the sky	X2
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Nor to pursue the atoms one by one	D2
To see the law whereby each thing goes on	D2
But some men ignorant of matter think	P4
Opposing this that not without the gods	Q4
In such adjustment to our human ways	E3
Can Nature change the seasons of the years	T3
And bring to birth the grains and all of else	V2
To which divine Delight the guide of life	W
Persuades mortality and leads it on	D2
That through her artful blandishments of love	R4
It propagate the generations still	A4
Lest humankind should perish When they feign	D2
That gods have stablished all things but fo	R4

Lucretius

Book Ii - Part 02 - Atomic Motions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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