Homer's Hymn To The Earth: Mother Of All Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBB DDEEFFGBHBBIJBB KKBB| O universal Mother who dost keep | A |
| From everlasting thy foundations deep | A |
| Eldest of things Great Earth I sing of thee | B |
| All shapes that have their dwelling in the sea | B |
| All things that fly or on the ground divine | C |
| Live move and there are nourished these are thine | C |
| These from thy wealth thou dost sustain from thee | B |
| Fair babes are born and fruits on every tree | B |
| Hang ripe and large revered Divinity | B |
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| The life of mortal men beneath thy sway | D |
| Is held thy power both gives and takes away | D |
| Happy are they whom thy mild favours nourish | E |
| All things unstinted round them grow and flourish | E |
| For them endures the life sustaining field | F |
| Its load of harvest and their cattle yield | F |
| Large increase and their house with wealth is filled | G |
| Such honoured dwell in cities fair and free | B |
| The homes of lovely women prosperously | H |
| Their sons exult in youth s new budding gladness | B |
| And their fresh daughters free from care or sadness | B |
| With bloom inwoven dance and happy song | I |
| On the soft flowers the meadow grass among | J |
| Leap round them sporting such delights by thee | B |
| Are given rich Power revered Divinity | B |
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| Mother of gods thou Wife of starry Heaven | K |
| Farewell be thou propitious and be given | K |
| A happy life for this brief melody | B |
| Nor thou nor other songs shall unremembered be | B |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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