Hymn Of Apollo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACDD AEFEFGG AHIHIJJ KLMLMNN KOPQPRR KSNSNTT| I | A |
| The sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie | A |
| Curtained with star inwoven tapestries | B |
| From the broad moonlight of the sky | A |
| Fanning the busy dreams from my dim eyes | C |
| Waken me when their Mother the gray Dawn | D |
| Tells them that dreams and that the moon is gone | D |
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| II | A |
| Then I arise and climbing Heaven's blue dome | E |
| I walk over the mountains and the waves | F |
| Leaving my robe upon the ocean foam | E |
| My footsteps pave the clouds with fire the caves | F |
| Are filled with my bright presence and the air | G |
| Leaves the green Earth to my embraces bare | G |
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| III | A |
| The sunbeams are my shafts with which I kill | H |
| Deceit that loves the night and fears the day | I |
| All men who do or even imagine ill | H |
| Fly me and from the glory of my ray | I |
| Good minds and open actions take new might | J |
| Until diminished by the reign of Night | J |
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| IV | K |
| I feed the clouds the rainbows and the flowers | L |
| With their ethereal colors the Moon's globe | M |
| And the pure stars in their eternal bowers | L |
| Are cinctured with my power as with a robe | M |
| Whatever lamps on Earth or Heaven may shine | N |
| Are portions of one power which is mine | N |
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| V | K |
| I stand at noon upon the peak of Heaven | O |
| Then with unwilling steps I wander down | P |
| Into the clouds of the Atlantic even | Q |
| For grief that I depart they weep and frown | P |
| What look is more delightful than the smile | R |
| With which I soothe them from the western isle | R |
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| VI | K |
| I am the eye with which the Universe | S |
| Beholds itself and knows it is divine | N |
| All harmony of instrument or verse | S |
| All prophecy all medicine is mine | N |
| All light of art or nature to my song | T |
| Victory and praise in its own right belong | T |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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