Prometheus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEED FGGF HIIH BJJB| Prometheus stole from Heaven the sacred fire | A |
| And swept to earth with it o'er land and sea | B |
| He lit the vestal flames of poesy | B |
| Content for this to brave celestial ire | C |
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| Wroth were the gods and with eternal hate | D |
| Pursued the fearless one who ravished Heaven | E |
| That earth might hold in fee the perfect leaven | E |
| To lift men's souls above their low estate | D |
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| But judge you now when poets wield the pen | F |
| Think you not well the wrong has been repaired | G |
| 'Twas all in vain that ill Prometheus fared | G |
| The fire has been returned to Heaven again | F |
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| We have no singers like the ones whose note | H |
| Gave challenge to the noblest warbler's song | I |
| We have no voice so mellow sweet and strong | I |
| As that which broke from Shelley's golden throat | H |
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| The measure of our songs is our desires | B |
| We tinkle where old poets used to storm | J |
| We lack their substance tho' we keep their form | J |
| We strum our banjo strings and call them lyres | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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