Cadmus And Harmonia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDCEE DFGHIHIG DJJKLMKNL OBONCCMBN| Far far from here | A |
| The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay | B |
| Among the green Illyrian hills and there | C |
| The sunshine in the happy glens is fair | C |
| And by the sea and in the brakes | D |
| The grass is cool the sea side air | C |
| Buoyant and fresh the mountain flowers | E |
| More virginal and sweet than ours | E |
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| And there they say two bright and aged snakes | D |
| Who once were Cadmus and Harmonia | F |
| Bask in the glens or on the warm sea shore | G |
| In breathless quiet after all their ills | H |
| Nor do they see their country nor the place | I |
| Where the Sphinx lived among the frowning hills | H |
| Nor the unhappy palace of their race | I |
| Nor Thebes nor the Ismenus any more | G |
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| There those two live far in the Illyrian brakes | D |
| They had stay'd long enough to see | J |
| In Thebes the billow of calamity | J |
| Over their own dear children roll'd | K |
| Curse upon curse pang upon pang | L |
| For years they sitting helpless in their home | M |
| A grey old man and woman yet of old | K |
| The Gods had to their marriage come | N |
| And at the banquet all the Muses sang | L |
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| Therefore they did not end their days | O |
| In sight of blood but were rapt far away | B |
| To where the west wind plays | O |
| And murmurs of the Adriatic come | N |
| To those untrodden mountain lawns and there | C |
| Placed safely in changed forms the pair | C |
| Wholly forgot their first sad life and home | M |
| And all that Theban woe and stray | B |
| For ever through the glens placid and dumb | N |
Matthew Arnold
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