Prometheus Unbound: Act I (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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SCENE A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus Prometheus is discovered bound to the Precipice Panthea and Ione areseated at his feet Time night During the Scene morning slowly breaks	A
Prometheus	A
Monarch of Gods and D aelig mons and all Spirits	A
But One who throng those bright and rolling worlds	A
Which Thou and I alone of living things	A
Behold with sleepless eyes regard this Earth	B
Made multitudinous with thy slaves whom thou	C
Requitest for knee worship prayer and praise	A
And toil and hecatombs of broken hearts	A
With fear and self contempt and barren hope	D
Whilst me who am thy foe eyeless in hate	E
Hast thou made reign and triumph to thy scorn	F
O'er mine own misery and thy vain revenge	G
Three thousand years of sleep unsheltered hours	A
And moments aye divided by keen pangs	A
Till they seemed years torture and solitude	H
Scorn and despair these are mine empire	I
More glorious far than that which thou surveyest	H
From thine unenvied throne O Mighty God	H
Almighty had I deigned to share the shame	J
Of thine ill tyranny and hung not here	K
Nailed to this wall of eagle baffling mountain	L
Black wintry dead unmeasured without herb	M
Insect or beast or shape or sound of life	N
Ah me alas pain pain ever for ever	I
	-
No change no pause no hope Yet I endure	O
I ask the Earth have not the mountains felt	H
I ask yon Heaven the all beholding Sun	L
Has it not seen The Sea in storm or calm	P
Heaven's ever changing Shadow spread below	Q
Have its deaf waves not heard my agony	R
Ah me alas pain pain ever for ever	I
	-
The crawling glaciers pierce me with the spears	A
Of their moon freezing crystals the bright chains	A
Eat with their burning cold into my bones	A
Heaven's wing egrave d hound polluting from thy lips	A
His beak in poison not his own tears up	S
My heart and shapeless sights come wandering by	T
The ghastly people of the realm of dream	U
Mocking me and the Earthquake fiends are charged	H
To wrench the rivets from my quivering wounds	A
When the rocks split and close again behind	H
While from their loud abysses howling throng	V
The genii of the storm urging the rage	W
Of whirlwind and afflict me with keen hail	X
And yet to me welcome is day and night	H
Whether one breaks the hoar frost of the morn	F
Or starry dim and slow the other climbs	A
The leaden coloured east for then they lead	H
The wingless crawling hours one among whom	Y
As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim	Z
Shall drag thee cruel King to kiss the blood	H
From these pale feet which then might trample thee	R
If they disdained not such a prostrate slave	A2
Disdain Ah no I pity thee What ruin	L
Will hunt thee undefended through wide Heaven	L
How will thy soul cloven to its depth with terror	I
Gape like a hell within I speak in grief	B2
Not exultation for I hate no more	C2
As then ere misery made me wise The curse	A
Once breathed on thee I would recall Ye Mountains	A
Whose many voic egrave d Echoes through the mist	H
Of cataracts flung the thunder of that spell	D2
Ye icy Springs stagnant with wrinkling frost	H
Which vibrated to hear me and then crept	H
Shuddering through India Thou serenest Air	E2
Through which the Sun walks burning without beams	A
And ye swift Whirlwinds who on pois egrave d wings	A
Hung mute and moveless o'er yon hushed abyss	A
As thunder louder than your own made rock	F2
The orb egrave d world If then my words had power	I
Though I am changed so that aught evil wish	G2
Is dead within although no memory be	R
Of what is hate let them not lose it now	C
What was that curse for ye all heard me speak	H2

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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