Thebais - Book One - Part Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme

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For by the black infernal Styx I swear	A
That dreadful oath which binds the thunderer	A
Tis fixed th irrevocable doom of Jove	B
No force can bend me no persuasion move	B
haste then Cyllenius through the liquid air	A
Go mount the winds and to the shades repair	A
Bid hell s black monarch my commands obey	C
And give up Laius to the realms of day	C
Whose ghost yet shiv ring on Cocytus sand	D
Expects its passage to thc further strand	D
Let the pale sire revisit Thebes and bear	A
These pleasing orders to the tyrant s ear	A
That from his exiled brother swelled with pride	E
Of foreign forces and his Argive bride	E
Almighty Jove commands him to detain	F
The promised empire and alternate reign	F
Be this the cause of more than mortal hate	G
The rest succeeding times shall ripen into fate	G
The god obeys and to his feet applies	H
Those golden wings that cut the yielding skies	H
His ample hat his beamy locks o erspread	G
And veiled the starry glories of his head	G
He seized the wand that causes sleep to fly	I
Or in soft slumbers seals the wakeful eye	I
That drives the dead to dark Tartarcan coasts	J
Or back to life compels the wand ring ghosts	J
Thus through the parting clouds the son of May	C
Wings on the whistling winds his rapid way	C
Now smoothly steers through air his equal flight	G
Now springs aloft and tow rs th ethereal height	G
Then wheeling down the steep of heav n he flies	H
And draws a radiant circle o er the skies	H
Meantime the banished Polynices roves	H
his Thebes abandoned through th Aonian groves	H
While future realms his wand ring thoughts delight	G
His daily vision and his dream by night	G
Forbidden Thebes appears before his eye	I
From whence he sees his absent brother fly	I
With transport views the airy rule his own	K
And swells on an imaginary throne	K
Fain would he cast a tedious age away	C
And live out all in one triumphant day	C
He chides the lazy progress of the sun	L
And bids the year with swifter motion run	L
With anxious hopes his craving mind is tost	C
And all his joys in length of wishes lost	C
The hero then resolves his course to bend	C
Where ancient Danaus fruitful fields extend	C
And famed Mycene s lofty towers ascend	C
Where late the sun did Atreus crimes detest	C
And disappeared in horror of the feast	C
And now by chance by fate or furies led	C
From Bacehus consecrated caves he fled	C
Where the shrill cries of frantic matrons sound	C
And Pentheus blood enriched the rising ground	C
Then sees Cithaeron tow ring o er the plain	F
And thence declining gently to the main	F
Next to the bounds of Nisus realm repairs	H
Where treach rous Scylla cut the purple hairs	H
The hanging cliffs of Sciron s rock explores	H
And hears the murmurs of the diff rent shores	H
Passes the strait that parts the foaming seas	H
And stately Corinth s pleasing site surveys	H
Twas now the time when Ph bus yields to night	C
And rising Cynthia sheds her silver light	C
Wide o er the world in solemn pomp she drew	A
Her airy chariot hung with pearly dew	A
All birds and beasts lie hushed sleep steals away	C
The wild desires of men and toils of day	C
And brings descending through the silent air	A
A sweet forgetfulness of human care	A
Yet no red clouds with golden borders gay	C
Promise the skies the bright return of day	C
No faint reflections of the distant light	C
Streak with long gleams the scatt ring shades of night	C
From the damp earth impervious vapours rise	H
Encrease the darkness and involve the skies	H
At once the rushing winds with roaring sound	C
Burst from th olian caves and rend the ground	C
With equal rage their airy quarrel try	I
And win by turns the kingdom of the sky	I
But with a thicker night black Auster shrouds	H
The heav ns and drives on heaps the rolling clouds	H
From whose dark womb a rattling tempest pours	H
Which the cold north congeals to haily show rs	H
From pole to pole the thunder roars aloud	C
And broken lightnings flash from ev ry cloud	C
Now smoaks with show rs the misty mountain ground	C
And floated fields lie undistinguished round	C
Th Inachian streams with headlong fury run	L
And Erasmus rolls a deluge on	M
The foaming Lerna swells above its bounds	H
And spreads its ancient poisons o er the grounds	H
Where late was dust now rapid torrents play	C
Rush through the mounds and bear the dams away	C
Old limbs of trees from crackling forests torn	N
Are whirled in air and on the winds are borne	N
The storm the dark Lyc an groves displayed	C
And first to light exposed the sacred shade	C
Th intrepid Theban hears the bursting sky	I
Sees yawning rocks in massy fragments fly	I
And views astonished from the hills afar	A
The floods descending and the wat ry war	A
That driv n by storms and pouring o er the plain	F
Swept herds and hinds and houses to the main	F
Through the brown horrors of the night he fled	C
Nor knows amazed what doubtful path to tread	C
His brother s image to his mind appears	H
Inflames his heart with rage and wings his feet with fears	H
So fares a sailor on the stormy main	F
When clouds conceal Bo tes golden warn	N
When not a star its friendly lustre keeps	H
Nor trembling Cynthia glimmers on the deeps	H
He dreads the rocks and shoals and seas and skies	H
While thunder roars and lightning round him flies	H
Thus strove the chief on every side distressed	C
Thus still his courage with his toils increased	C
With his broad shield opposed he forced his way	C
Through thickest woods and roused the beasts of prey	C
Till he beheld where from Larissa s height	C
The shelving walls reflect a glancing light	C
Thither with haste the Theban hero flies	H
On this side Lerna s pois nous water lies	H
On that Prosymna s grove and temple rise	H
lie passed the gates which then unguarded lay	C
And to the regal palace bent his way	C
On the cold marble spent with toil he lies	H
And waits till pleasing slumbers seal his eyes	H
Adrastus here his happy people sways	H
Blest with calm peace in his declining days	H
By both his parents of descent divine	O
Great Jove and Ph bus graced his noble line	O
Heaven had not crowned his wishes with a son	L
But two fair daughters heired his state and throne	K
To him Apollo wondrous to relate	C
But who can pierce into the depths of fate	C
Had sung Expect thy sons on Argos shore	A
A yellow lion and a bristly boar	A
This long revolved in his paternal breast	C
Sate heavy on his heart and broke his rest	C
This great Amphiaraus lay hid from thee	P
Though skilled in fate and dark futurity	C
The father s care and prophet s art were vain	F
For thus did the predicting god ordain	F
Lo hapless Tydeus whose ill fated hand	C
Had slain his brother leaves his native land	C
And seized with horror in the shades of night	C
Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight	C
Now by the fury of the tempest driv n	Q
He seeks a shelter from th inclement heav n	Q
Till led by fate the Theban s steps he treads	H
And to fair Argos open court succeeds	H
When thus the chiefs from diff rent lands resort	C
T Adrastus realms and hospitable court	C
The king surveys his guests with curious eyes	H
And views their arms and habit with surprise	H
A lion s yellow skin the Theban wears	H
horrid his mane and rough with curling hairs	H
Such once employed Alcides youthful toils	H
Ere yet adorned with Nemea s dreadful spoils	H
A boar s stiff hide of Calydonian breed	C
nides manly shoulders overspread	C
Oblique his tusks erect his bristles stood	C
Alive the pride and terror of the wood	C
Struck with the sight and fixed in deep amaze	H
The King th accomplished oracle surveys	H
Reveres	H

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