Arethusa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDCEEFGGFDDHIIH AJJDKKDLLMIIMNIHOOH APP QQNIIRSSRTTSDUS VWWWWWWWWSWWSDDXWWX VWWWSSWHHYMMMHHZMMZI | A |
Arethusa arose | B |
From her couch of snows | B |
In the Acroceraunian mountains | C |
From cloud and from crag | D |
With many a jag | D |
Shepherding her bright fountains | C |
She leapt down the rocks | E |
With her rainbow locks | E |
Streaming among the streams | F |
Her steps paved with green | G |
The downward ravine | G |
Which slopes to the western gleams | F |
And gliding and springing | D |
She went ever singing | D |
In murmurs as soft as sleep | H |
The Earth seemed to love her | I |
And Heaven smiled above her | I |
As she lingered towards the deep | H |
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II | A |
Then Alpheus bold | J |
On his glacier cold | J |
With his trident the mountains strook | D |
And opened a chasm | K |
In the rocks with the spasm | K |
All Erymanthus shook | D |
And the black south wind | L |
It unsealed behind | L |
The urns of the silent snow | M |
And earthquake and thunder | I |
Did rend in sunder | I |
The bars of the springs below | M |
And the beard and the hair | N |
Of the River god were | I |
Seen through the torrent s sweep | H |
As he followed the light | O |
Of the fleet nymph s flight | O |
To the brink of the Dorian deep | H |
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III | A |
'Oh save me Oh guide me | P |
And bid the deep hide me | P |
For he grasps me now by the hair ' | - |
The loud Ocean heard | Q |
To its blue depth stirred | Q |
And divided at her prayer | N |
And under the water | I |
The Earth s white daughter | I |
Fled like a sunny beam | R |
Behind her descended | S |
Her billows unblended | S |
With the brackish Dorian stream | R |
Like a gloomy stain | T |
On the emerald main | T |
Alpheus rushed behind | S |
As an eagle pursuing | D |
A dove to its ruin | U |
Down the streams of the cloudy wind | S |
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IV | V |
Under the bowers | W |
Where the Ocean Powers | W |
Sit on their pearled thrones | W |
Through the coral woods | W |
Of the weltering floods | W |
Over heaps of unvalued stones | W |
Through the dim beams | W |
Which amid the streams | W |
Weave a network of coloured light | S |
And under the caves | W |
Where the shadowy waves | W |
Are as green as the forest s night | S |
Outspeeding the shark | D |
And the sword fish dark | D |
Under the Ocean s foam | X |
And up through the rifts | W |
Of the mountain clifts | W |
They passed to their Dorian home | X |
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V | V |
And now from their fountains | W |
In Enna s mountains | W |
Down one vale where the morning basks | W |
Like friends once parted | S |
Grown single hearted | S |
They ply their watery tasks | W |
At sunrise they leap | H |
From their cradles steep | H |
In the cave of the shelving hill | Y |
At noontide they flow | M |
Through the woods below | M |
And the meadows of asphodel | M |
And at night they sleep | H |
In the rocking deep | H |
Beneath the Ortygian shore | Z |
Like spirits that lie | M |
In the azure sky | M |
When they love but live no more | Z |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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