Ode To Naples Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDBEBBFFFFFFGHHF GG BB A CCIJJICFKCFKCIJCBKFF HKBBBBBBB CFCBB L BJBMJCBCBBBBNN L OONCCNONCLN A KFKFFCECEEFFNN A GGBNBBNGNBBN BB B JBJBBCJCJJPPNN CBBB B JJJQQJJJFNN B CCCCCBBBBBCECCEEBBBE BB B LLFBBFBJRBJRLBBJRJFF JCBBCJBB CBBEPODE a | A |
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I stood within the City disinterred | B |
And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls | C |
Of spirits passing through the streets and heard | B |
The Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals | C |
Thrill through those roofless halls | C |
The oracular thunder penetrating shook | D |
The listening soul in my suspended blood | B |
I felt that Earth out of her deep heart spoke | E |
I felt but heard not through white columns glowed | B |
The isle sustaining ocean flood | B |
A plane of light between two heavens of azure | F |
Around me gleamed many a bright sepulchre | F |
Of whose pure beauty Time as if his pleasure | F |
Were to spare Death had never made erasure | F |
But every living lineament was clear | F |
As in the sculptor's thought and there | F |
The wreaths of stony myrtle ivy and pine | G |
Like winter leaves o'ergrown by moulded snow | H |
Seemed only not to move and grow | H |
Because the crystal silence of the air | F |
Weighed on their life even as the Power divine | G |
Which then lulled all things brooded upon mine | G |
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NOTE | B |
Pompeii SHELLEY'S NOTE | B |
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EPODE a | A |
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Then gentle winds arose | C |
With many a mingled close | C |
Of wild Aeolian sound and mountain odours keen | I |
And where the Baian ocean | J |
Welters with airlike motion | J |
Within above around its bowers of starry green | I |
Moving the sea flowers in those purple caves | C |
Even as the ever stormless atmosphere | F |
Floats o'er the Elysian realm | K |
It bore me like an Angel o'er the waves | C |
Of sunlight whose swift pinnace of dewy air | F |
No storm can overwhelm | K |
I sailed where ever flows | C |
Under the calm Serene | I |
A spirit of deep emotion | J |
From the unknown graves | C |
Of the dead Kings of Melody | B |
Shadowy Aornos darkened o'er the helm | K |
The horizontal aether Heaven stripped bare | F |
Its depth over Elysium where the prow | F |
Made the invisible water white as snow | H |
From that Typhaean mount Inarime | K |
There streamed a sunbright vapour like the standard | B |
Of some aethereal host | B |
Whilst from all the coast | B |
Louder and louder gathering round there wandered | B |
Over the oracular woods and divine sea | B |
Prophesyings which grew articulate | B |
They seize me I must speak them be they fate | B |
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NOTES | C |
odours B odour | F |
depth B depths | C |
sun bright B sunlit | B |
Homer and Virgil SHELLEY'S NOTE | B |
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STROPHE | L |
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Naples thou Heart of men which ever pantest | B |
Naked beneath the lidless eye of Heaven | J |
Elysian City which to calm enchantest | B |
The mutinous air and sea they round thee even | M |
As sleep round Love are driven | J |
Metropolis of a ruined Paradise | C |
Long lost late won and yet but half regained | B |
Bright Altar of the bloodless sacrifice | C |
Which armed Victory offers up unstained | B |
To Love the flower enchained | B |
Thou which wert once and then didst cease to be | B |
Now art and henceforth ever shalt be free | B |
If Hope and Truth and Justice can avail | N |
Hail hail all hail | N |
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STROPHE | L |
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Thou youngest giant birth | O |
Which from the groaning earth | O |
Leap'st clothed in armour of impenetrable scale | N |
Last of the Intercessors | C |
Who 'gainst the Crowned Transgressors | C |
Pleadest before God's love Arrayed in Wisdom's mail | N |
Wave thy lightning lance in mirth | O |
Nor let thy high heart fail | N |
Though from their hundred gates the leagued Oppressors | C |
With hurried legions move | L |
Hail hail all hail | N |
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ANTISTROPHE a | A |
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What though Cimmerian Anarchs dare blaspheme | K |
Freedom and thee thy shield is as a mirror | F |
To make their blind slaves see and with fierce gleam | K |
To turn his hungry sword upon the wearer | F |
A new Actaeon's error | F |
Shall theirs have been devoured by their own hounds | C |
Be thou like the imperial Basilisk | E |
Killing thy foe with unapparent wounds | C |
Gaze on Oppression till at that dread risk | E |
Aghast she pass from the Earth's disk | E |
Fear not but gaze for freemen mightier grow | F |
And slaves more feeble gazing on their foe | F |
If Hope and Truth and Justice may avail | N |
Thou shalt be great All hail | N |
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ANTISTROPHE a | A |
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From Freedom's form divine | G |
From Nature's inmost shrine | G |
Strip every impious gawd rend | B |
Error veil by veil | N |
O'er Ruin desolate | B |
O'er Falsehood's fallen state | B |
Sit thou sublime unawed be the Destroyer pale | N |
And equal laws be thine | G |
And winged words let sail | N |
Freighted with truth even from the throne of God | B |
That wealth surviving fate | B |
Be thine All hail | N |
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NOTE | B |
wealth surviving cj A C Bradley | B |
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ANTISTROPHE b | B |
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Didst thou not start to hear Spain's thrilling paean | J |
From land to land re echoed solemnly | B |
Till silence became music From the Aeaean | J |
To the cold Alps eternal Italy | B |
Starts to hear thine The Sea | B |
Which paves the desert streets of Venice laughs | C |
In light and music widowed Genoa wan | J |
By moonlight spells ancestral epitaphs | C |
Murmuring 'Where is Doria ' fair Milan | J |
Within whose veins long ran | J |
The viper's palsying venom lifts her heel | P |
To bruise his head The signal and the seal | P |
If Hope and Truth and Justice can avail | N |
Art thou of all these hopes O hail | N |
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NOTES | C |
Aeaea the island of Circe SHELLEY'S NOTE | B |
The viper was the armorial device of the Visconti | B |
tyrants of Milan SHELLEY'S NOTE | B |
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ANTISTROPHE b | B |
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Florence beneath the sun | J |
Of cities fairest one | J |
Blushes within her bower for Freedom's expectation | J |
From eyes of quenchless hope | Q |
Rome tears the priestly cope | Q |
As ruling once by power so now by admiration | J |
An athlete stripped to run | J |
From a remoter station | J |
For the high prize lost on Philippi's shore | F |
As then Hope Truth and Justice did avail | N |
So now may Fraud and Wrong O hail | N |
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EPODE b | B |
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Hear ye the march as of the Earth born Forms | C |
Arrayed against the ever living Gods | C |
The crash and darkness of a thousand storms | C |
Bursting their inaccessible abodes | C |
Of crags and thunder clouds | C |
See ye the banners blazoned to the day | B |
Inwrought with emblems of barbaric pride | B |
Dissonant threats kill Silence far away | B |
The serene Heaven which wraps our Eden wide | B |
With iron light is dyed | B |
The Anarchs of the North lead forth their legions | C |
Like Chaos o'er creation uncreating | E |
An hundred tribes nourished on strange religions | C |
And lawless slaveries down the aereal regions | C |
Of the white Alps desolating | E |
Famished wolves that bide no waiting | E |
Blotting the glowing footsteps of old glory | B |
Trampling our columned cities into dust | B |
Their dull and savage lust | B |
On Beauty's corse to sickness satiating | E |
They come The fields they tread look black and hoary | B |
With fire from their red feet the streams run gory | B |
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EPODE b | B |
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Great Spirit deepest Love | L |
Which rulest and dost move | L |
All things which live and are within the Italian shore | F |
Who spreadest Heaven around it | B |
Whose woods rocks waves surround it | B |
Who sittest in thy star o'er Ocean's western floor | F |
Spirit of beauty at whose soft command | B |
The sunbeams and the showers distil its foison | J |
From the Earth's bosom chill | R |
Oh bid those beams be each a blinding brand | B |
Of lightning bid those showers be dews of poison | J |
Bid the Earth's plenty kill | R |
Bid thy bright Heaven above | L |
Whilst light and darkness bound it | B |
Be their tomb who planned | B |
To make it ours and thine | J |
Or with thine harmonizing ardours fill | R |
And raise thy sons as o'er the prone horizon | J |
Thy lamp feeds every twilight wave with fire | F |
Be man's high hope and unextinct desire | F |
The instrument to work thy will divine | J |
Then clouds from sunbeams antelopes from leopards | C |
And frowns and fears from thee | B |
Would not more swiftly flee | B |
Than Celtic wolves from the Ausonian shepherds | C |
Whatever Spirit from thy starry shrine | J |
Thou yieldest or withholdest oh let be | B |
This city of thy worship ever free | B |
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NOTES | C |
old lost B | B |
black blue B | B |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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