Fragments Written For Hellas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEDE AFGEGEHHIJJ AKLEELMMENNGEKGEKKOO| I | A |
| Fairest of the Destinies | B |
| Disarray thy dazzling eyes | C |
| Keener far thy lightnings are | D |
| Than the winged bolts thou bearest | E |
| And the smile thou wearest | E |
| Wraps thee as a star | D |
| Is wrapped in light | E |
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| II | A |
| Could Arethuse to her forsaken urn | F |
| From Alpheus and the bitter Doris run | G |
| Or could the morning shafts of purest light | E |
| Again into the quivers of the Sun | G |
| Be gathered could one thought from its wild flight | E |
| Return into the temple of the brain | H |
| Without a change without a stain | H |
| Could aught that is ever again | I |
| Be what it once has ceased to be | J |
| Greece might again be free | J |
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| III | A |
| A star has fallen upon the earth | K |
| Mid the benighted nations | L |
| A quenchless atom of immortal light | E |
| A living spark of Night | E |
| A cresset shaken from the constellations | L |
| Swifter than the thunder fell | M |
| To the heart of Earth the well | M |
| Where its pulses flow and beat | E |
| And unextinct in that cold source | N |
| Burns and on course | N |
| Guides the sphere which is its prison | G |
| Like an angelic spirit pent | E |
| In a form of mortal birth | K |
| Till as a spirit half arisen | G |
| Shatters its charnel it has rent | E |
| In the rapture of its mirth | K |
| The thin and painted garment of the Earth | K |
| Ruining its chaos a fierce breath | O |
| Consuming all its forms of living death | O |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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