Fragment Of An 'antigone' Poem Rhyme Scheme

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THE CHORUS	A
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Well hath he done who hath seiz'd happiness	A
For little do the all containing Hours	B
Though opulent freely give	C
Who weighing that life well	D
Fortune presents unpray'd	E
Declines her ministry and carves his own	F
And justice not infring'd	E
Makes his own welfare his unswerv'd from law	G
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He does well too who keeps that clue the mild	E
Birth Goddess and the austere Fates first gave	H
For from the clay when these	I
Bring him a weeping child	E
First to the light and mark	J
A country for him kinsfolk and a home	K
Unguided he remains	L
Till the Fates come again alone with death	M
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In little companies	I
And our own place once left	E
Ignorant where to stand or whom to avoid	E
By city and household group'd we live and many shocks	N
Our order heaven ordain'd	E
Must every day endure	O
Voyages exiles hates dissensions wars	P
Besides what waste He makes	Q
The all hated order breaking	R
Without friend city or home	K
Death who dissevers all	S
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Him then I praise who dares	T
To self selected good	E
Prefer obedience to the primal law	G
Which consecrates the ties of blood for these indeed	E
Are to the Gods a care	U
That touches but himself	V
For every day man may be link'd and loos 'd	E
With strangers but the bond	E
Original deep inwound	E
Of blood can he not bind	E
Nor if Fate binds not bear	U
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But hush Haemon whom Antigone	W
Robbing herself of life in burying	R
Against Creon's law Polynices	T
Robs of a lov'd bride pale imploring	R
Waiting her passage	X
Forth from the palace hitherward comes	T
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HAEMON	W
	-
No no old men Creon I curse not	E
I weep Thebans	T
One than Creon crueller far	Y
For he he at least by slaying her	Z
August laws doth mightily vindicate	E
But thou too bold headstrong pitiless	T
Ah me honourest more than thy lover	Z
O Antigone	W
A dead ignorant thankless corpse	T
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THE CHORUS	T
	-
Nor was the love untrue	A2
Which the Dawn Goddess bore	B2
To that fair youth she erst	E
Leaving the salt sea beds	T
And coming flush'd over the stormy frith	C2
Of loud Euripus saw	T
Saw and snatch'd wild with love	D2
From the pine dotted spurs	T
Of Parnes where thy waves	T
Asopus gleam rock hemm'd	E
The Hunter of the Tanagraean Field	E
But him in his sweet prime	E2
By severance immature	O
By Artemis' soft shafts	T
She though a Goddess born	W
Saw in the rocky isle of Delos die	E
Such end o'ertook that love	D2
For she desir'd to make	F2
Immortal mortal man	W
And blend his happy life	G2
Far from the Gods with hers	T
To him postponing an eternal law	T
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HAEMON	W
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But like me she wroth complaining	R
Succumb'd to the envy of unkind Gods	T
And her beautiful arms unclasping	R
Her fair Youth unwillingly gave	H
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THE CHORUS	T
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Nor though enthron'd too high	E
To fear assault of envious Gods	T
His belov'd Argive Seer would Zeus retain	W
From his appointed end	E
In this our Thebes but when	W
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His flying steeds came near	H2
To cross the steep Ismenian glen	W
The broad Earth open'd and whelm'd them and him	I2
And through the void air sang	R
At large his enemy's spear	H2
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And fain would Zeus have sav'd his tired son	W
Beholding him where the Two Pillars stand	E
O'er the sun redden'd Western Straits	T
Or at his work in that dim lower world	E
Fain would he have recall'd	E
The fraudulent oath which bound	E
To a much feebler wight the heroic man	W
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But he preferr'd Fate to his strong desire	Z
Nor did there need less than the burning pile	J2
Under the towering Trachis crags	T
And the Spercheius' vale shaken with groans	T
And the rous'd Maliac gulph	E
And scar'd Oetaean snows	T
To achieve his son's deliverance O my child	E

Matthew Arnold

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