Arethusa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDCEEFGGFDDHIIH AJJDKKDLLMIIMNIHOOH APP QQNIIRSSRTTSDUS VWWWWWWWWSWWSDDXWWX VWWWSSWHHYMMMHHZMMZ

IA
Arethusa aroseB
From her couch of snowsB
In the Acroceraunian mountainsC
From cloud and from cragD
With many a jagD
Shepherding her bright fountainsC
She leapt down the rocksE
With her rainbow locksE
Streaming among the streamsF
Her steps paved with greenG
The downward ravineG
Which slopes to the western gleamsF
And gliding and springingD
She went ever singingD
In murmurs as soft as sleepH
The Earth seemed to love herI
And Heaven smiled above herI
As she lingered towards the deepH
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IIA
Then Alpheus boldJ
On his glacier coldJ
With his trident the mountains strookD
And opened a chasmK
In the rocks with the spasmK
All Erymanthus shookD
And the black south windL
It unsealed behindL
The urns of the silent snowM
And earthquake and thunderI
Did rend in sunderI
The bars of the springs belowM
And the beard and the hairN
Of the River god wereI
Seen through the torrent s sweepH
As he followed the lightO
Of the fleet nymph s flightO
To the brink of the Dorian deepH
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IIIA
'Oh save me Oh guide meP
And bid the deep hide meP
For he grasps me now by the hair '-
The loud Ocean heardQ
To its blue depth stirredQ
And divided at her prayerN
And under the waterI
The Earth s white daughterI
Fled like a sunny beamR
Behind her descendedS
Her billows unblendedS
With the brackish Dorian streamR
Like a gloomy stainT
On the emerald mainT
Alpheus rushed behindS
As an eagle pursuingD
A dove to its ruinU
Down the streams of the cloudy windS
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IVV
Under the bowersW
Where the Ocean PowersW
Sit on their pearled thronesW
Through the coral woodsW
Of the weltering floodsW
Over heaps of unvalued stonesW
Through the dim beamsW
Which amid the streamsW
Weave a network of coloured lightS
And under the cavesW
Where the shadowy wavesW
Are as green as the forest s nightS
Outspeeding the sharkD
And the sword fish darkD
Under the Ocean s foamX
And up through the riftsW
Of the mountain cliftsW
They passed to their Dorian homeX
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VV
And now from their fountainsW
In Enna s mountainsW
Down one vale where the morning basksW
Like friends once partedS
Grown single heartedS
They ply their watery tasksW
At sunrise they leapH
From their cradles steepH
In the cave of the shelving hillY
At noontide they flowM
Through the woods belowM
And the meadows of asphodelM
And at night they sleepH
In the rocking deepH
Beneath the Ortygian shoreZ
Like spirits that lieM
In the azure skyM
When they love but live no moreZ

Percy Bysshe Shelley



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