Bacchanalia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDEEFGHHIIJJKKBLM LMNOHOMPMQ RMSMIMTM CUVUWMXMMYMA BBZGA2A2A2B2B2C2C2D2 E2E2F2F2G2G2H2H2I2I2 MMAD2D2LMLMDH2SH2MMM MCMD2M CUMUC2J2H2J2MK2L2K2M MM2MMYMYD2D2N2N2I | A |
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The evening comes the fields are still | B |
The tinkle of the thirsty rill | B |
Unheard all day ascends again | C |
Deserted is the half mown plain | D |
Silent the swaths the ringing wain | D |
The mower's cry the dog's alarms | E |
All housed within the sleeping farms | E |
The business of the day is done | F |
The last left haymaker is gone | G |
And from the thyme upon the height | H |
And from the elder blossom white | H |
And pale dog roses in the hedge | I |
And from the mint plant in the sedge | I |
In puffs of balm the night air blows | J |
The perfume which the day forgoes | J |
And on the pure horizon far | K |
See pulsing with the first born star | K |
The liquid sky above the hill | B |
The evening comes the fields are still blockquote Loitering and leaping | L |
With saunter with bounds | M |
Flickering and circling | L |
In files and in rounds | M |
Gaily their pine staff green | N |
Tossing in air | O |
Loose o'er their shoulders white | H |
Showering their hair | O |
See the wild Maenads | M |
Break from the wood | P |
Youth and Iacchus | M |
Maddening their blood | Q |
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See through the quiet land | R |
Rioting they pass | M |
Fling the fresh heaps about | S |
Trample the grass | M |
Tear from the rifled hedge | I |
Garlands their prize | M |
Fill with their sports the field | T |
Fill with their cries | M |
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Shepherd what ails thee then | C |
Shepherd why mute | U |
Forth with thy joyous song | V |
Forth with thy flute | U |
Tempts not the revel blithe | W |
Lure not their cries | M |
Glow not their shoulders smooth | X |
Melt not their eyes | M |
Is not on cheeks like those | M |
Lovely the flush | Y |
Ah so the quiet was | M |
So was the hush blockquote II | A |
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The epoch ends the world is still | B |
The age has talk'd and work'd its fill | B |
The famous orators have shone | Z |
The famous poets sung and gone | G |
The famous men of war have fought | A2 |
The famous speculators thought | A2 |
The famous players sculptors wrought | A2 |
The famous painters fill'd their wall | B2 |
The famous critics judged it all | B2 |
The combatants are parted now | C2 |
Uphung the spear unbent the bow | C2 |
The puissant crown'd the weak laid low | D2 |
And in the after silence sweet | E2 |
Now strifes are hush'd our ears doth meet | E2 |
Ascending pure the bell like fame | F2 |
Of this or that down trodden name | F2 |
Delicate spirits push'd away | G2 |
In the hot press of the noon day | G2 |
And o'er the plain where the dead age | H2 |
Did its now silent warfare wage | H2 |
O'er that wide plain now wrapt in gloom | I2 |
Where many a splendour finds its tomb | I2 |
Many spent fames and fallen mights | M |
The one or two immortal lights | M |
Rise slowly up into the sky | A |
To shine there everlastingly | D2 |
Like stars over the bounding hill | D2 |
The epoch ends the world is still blockquote Thundering and bursting | L |
In torrents in waves | M |
Carolling and shouting | L |
Over tombs amid graves | M |
See on the cumber'd plain | D |
Clearing a stage | H2 |
Scattering the past about | S |
Comes the new age | H2 |
Bards make new poems | M |
Thinkers new schools | M |
Statesmen new systems | M |
Critics new rules | M |
All things begin again | C |
Life is their prize | M |
Earth with their deeds they fill | D2 |
Fill with their cries | M |
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Poet what ails thee then | C |
Say why so mute | U |
Forth with thy praising voice | M |
Forth with thy flute | U |
Loiterer why sittest thou | C2 |
Sunk in thy dream | J2 |
Tempts not the bright new age | H2 |
Shines not its stream | J2 |
Look ah what genius | M |
Art science wit | K2 |
Soldiers like Caesar | L2 |
Statesmen like Pitt | K2 |
Sculptors like Phidias | M |
Raphaels in shoals | M |
Poets like Shakespeare | M2 |
Beautiful souls | M |
See on their glowing cheeks | M |
Heavenly the flush | Y |
Ah so the silence was | M |
So was the hush | Y |
blockquote The world but feels the present's spell | D2 |
The poet feels the past as well | D2 |
Whatever men have done might do | N2 |
Whatever thought might think it too | N2 |
Matthew Arnold
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