Hellas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACC DEDEFF AGAGHH IJIJAA GKGKLM NONOPQ AOAJOO| The world's great age begins anew | A |
| The golden years return | B |
| The earth doth like a snake renew | A |
| Her winter weeds outworn | A |
| Heaven smiles and faiths and empires gleam | C |
| Like wrecks of a dissolving dream | C |
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| A brighter Hellas rears its mountains | D |
| From waves serener far | E |
| A new Peneus rolls his fountains | D |
| Against the morning star | E |
| Where fairer Tempes bloom there sleep | F |
| Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep | F |
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| A loftier Argo cleaves the main | A |
| Fraught with a later prize | G |
| Another Orpheus sings again | A |
| And loves and weeps and dies | G |
| A new Ulysses leaves once more | H |
| Calypso for his native shore | H |
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| O write no more the tale of Troy | I |
| If earth Death's scroll must be | J |
| Nor mix with Laian rage the joy | I |
| Which dawns upon the free | J |
| Although a subtler Sphinx renew | A |
| Riddles of death Thebes never knew | A |
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| Another Athens shall arise | G |
| And to remoter time | K |
| Bequeath like sunset to the skies | G |
| The splendour of its prime | K |
| And leave if naught so bright may live | L |
| All earth can take or Heaven can give | M |
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| Saturn and Love their long repose | N |
| Shall burst more bright and good | O |
| Than all who fell than One who rose | N |
| Than many unsubdued | O |
| Not gold not blood their altar dowers | P |
| But votive tears and symbol flowers | Q |
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| O cease must hate and death return | A |
| Cease must men kill and die | O |
| Cease drain not to its dregs the urn | A |
| Of bitter prophecy | J |
| The world is weary of the past | O |
| O might it die or rest at last | O |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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