On The Medusa Of Leonardo Da Vinci In The Florentine Gallery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDCEF GHGHGHII JKJKJKLL MNMNMNDM OPOPOPNN| A | |
| It lieth gazing on the midnight sky | B |
| Upon the cloudy mountain peak supine | C |
| Below far lands are seen tremblingly | D |
| Its horror and its beauty are divine | C |
| Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie | D |
| Loveliness like a shadow from which shine | C |
| Fiery and lurid struggling underneath | E |
| The agonies of anguish and of death | F |
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| Yet it is less the horror than the grace | G |
| Which turns the gazer's spirit into stone | H |
| Whereon the lineaments of that dead face | G |
| Are graven till the characters be grown | H |
| Into itself and thought no more can trace | G |
| 'Tis the melodious hue of beauty thrown | H |
| Athwart the darkness and the glare of pain | I |
| Which humanize and harmonize the strain | I |
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| And from its head as from one body grow | J |
| As grass out of a watery rock | K |
| Hairs which are vipers and they curl and flow | J |
| And their long tangles in each other lock | K |
| And with unending involutions show | J |
| Their mailed radiance as it were to mock | K |
| The torture and the death within and saw | L |
| The solid air with many a ragged jaw | L |
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| And from a stone beside a poisonous eft | M |
| Peeps idly into those Gorgonian eyes | N |
| Whilst in the air a ghastly bat bereft | M |
| Of sense has flitted with a mad surprise | N |
| Out of the cave this hideous light had cleft | M |
| And he comes hastening like a moth that hies | N |
| After a taper and the midnight sky | D |
| Flares a light more dread than obscurity | M |
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| 'Tis the tempestuous loveliness of terror | O |
| For from the serpents gleams a brazen glare | P |
| Kindled by that inextricable error | O |
| Which makes a thrilling vapour of the air | P |
| Become a and ever shifting mirror | O |
| Of all the beauty and the terror there | P |
| A woman's countenance with serpent locks | N |
| Gazing in death on Heaven from those wet rocks | N |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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