Asia: From Prometheus Unbound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEEFFF EEGHHGEEIJKLK EEMNNMEEOONNN| My soul is an enchanted boat | A |
| Which like a sleeping swan doth float | A |
| Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing | B |
| And thine doth like an angel sit | C |
| Beside a helm conducting it | C |
| Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing | B |
| It seems to float ever for ever | D |
| Upon that many winding river | D |
| Between mountains woods abysses | E |
| A paradise of wildernesses | E |
| Till like one in slumber bound | F |
| Borne to the ocean I float down around | F |
| Into a sea profound of ever spreading sound | F |
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| Meanwhile thy spirit lifts its pinions | E |
| In music's most serene dominions | E |
| Catching the winds that fan that happy heaven | G |
| And we sail on away afar | H |
| Without a course without a star | H |
| But by the instinct of sweet music driven | G |
| Till through Elysian garden islets | E |
| By thee most beautiful of pilots | E |
| Where never mortal pinnace glided | I |
| The boat of my desire is guided | J |
| Realms where the air we breathe is love | K |
| Which in the winds and on the waves doth move | L |
| Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above | K |
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| We have past Age's icy caves | E |
| And Manhood's dark and tossing waves | E |
| And Youth's smooth ocean smiling to betray | M |
| Beyond the glassy gulfs we flee | N |
| Of shadow peopled Infancy | N |
| Through Death and Birth to a diviner day | M |
| A paradise of vaulted bowers | E |
| Lit by downward gazing flowers | E |
| And watery paths that wind between | O |
| Wildernesses calm and green | O |
| Peopled by shapes too bright to see | N |
| And rest having beheld somewhat like thee | N |
| Which walk upon the sea and chant melodiously | N |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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