The Revolt Of Islam. - Canto 9 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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'That night we anchored in a woody bay	B
And sleep no more around us dared to hover	C
Than when all doubt and fear has passed away	B
It shades the couch of some unresting lover	C
Whose heart is now at rest thus night passed over	C
In mutual joy around a forest grew	D
Of poplars and dark oaks whose shade did cover	C
The waning stars pranked in the waters blue	D
And trembled in the wind which from the morning flew	D
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'The joyous Mariners and each free Maiden	E
Now brought from the deep forest many a bough	F
With woodland spoil most innocently laden	E
Soon wreaths of budding foliage seemed to flow	G
Over the mast and sails the stern and prow	F
Were canopied with blooming boughs the while	H
On the slant sun's path o'er the waves we go	G
Rejoicing like the dwellers of an isle	H
Doomed to pursue those waves that cannot cease to smile	H
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'The many ships spotting the dark blue deep	I
With snowy sails fled fast as ours came nigh	J
In fear and wonder and on every steep	I
Thousands did gaze they heard the startling cry	J
Like Earth's own voice lifted unconquerably	H
To all her children the unbounded mirth	K
The glorious joy of thy name Liberty	L
They heard As o'er the mountains of the earth	K
From peak to peak leap on the beams of Morning's birth	K
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'So from that cry over the boundless hills	M
Sudden was caught one universal sound	N
Like a volcano's voice whose thunder fills	M
Remotest skies such glorious madness found	N
A path through human hearts with stream which drowned	N
Its struggling fears and cares dark Custom's brood	O
They knew not whence it came but felt around	N
A wide contagion poured they called aloud	P
On Liberty that name lived on the sunny flood	Q
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'We reached the port Alas from many spirits	R
The wisdom which had waked that cry was fled	S
Like the brief glory which dark Heaven inherits	T
From the false dawn which fades ere it is spread	S
Upon the night's devouring darkness shed	S
Yet soon bright day will burst even like a chasm	U
Of fire to burn the shrouds outworn and dead	S
Which wrap the world a wide enthusiasm	U
To cleanse the fevered world as with an earthquake's spasm	U
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'I walked through the great City then but free	L
From shame or fear those toil worn Mariners	V
And happy Maidens did encompass me	L
And like a subterranean wind that stirs	V
Some forest among caves the hopes and fears	W
From every human soul a murmur strange	X
Made as I passed and many wept with tears	Y
Of joy and awe and winged thoughts did range	X
And half extinguished words which prophesied of change	X
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'For with strong speech I tore the veil that hid	Z
Nature and Truth and Liberty and Love	A2
As one who from some mountain's pyramid	Z
Points to the unrisen sun the shades approve	B2
His truth and flee from every stream and grove	C2
Thus gentle thoughts did many a bosom fill	H
Wisdom the mail of tried affections wove	C2
For many a heart and tameless scorn of ill	H
Thrice steeped in molten steel the unconquerable will	H
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'Some said I was a maniac wild and lost	D2
Some that I scarce had risen from the grave	E2
The Prophet's virgin bride a heavenly ghost	F2
Some said I was a fiend from my weird cave	E2
Who had stolen human shape and o'er the wave	E2
The forest and the mountain came some said	S
I was the child of God sent down to save	E2
Woman from bonds and death and on my head	S
The burden of their sins would frightfully be laid	G2
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'But soon my human words found sympathy	L
In human hearts the purest and the best	H2
As friend with friend made common cause with me	L
And they were few but resolute the rest	H2
Ere yet success the enterprise had blessed	H2
Leagued with me in their hearts their meals their slumber	C
Their hourly occupations were possessed	H2
By hopes which I had armed to overnumber	C
Those hosts of meaner cares which life's strong wings encumber	C
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'But chiefly women whom my voice did waken	E
From their cold careless willing slavery	C
Sought me one truth their dreary prison has shaken	E
They looked around and lo they became free	C
Their many tyrants sitting desolately	H
In slave deserted halls could none restrain	I2
For wrath's red fire had withered in the eye	J
Whose lightning once was death nor fear nor gain	I2
Could tempt one captive now to lock another's chain	I2
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'Those who were sent to bind me wept and felt	J2
Their minds outsoar the bonds which clasped them round	N
Even as a waxen shape may waste and melt	J2
In the white furnace and a visioned swound	J2
A pause of hope and awe the City bound	J2
Which like the silence of a tempest's birth	K
When in its awful shadow it has wound	J2
The sun the wind the ocean and the earth	K
Hung terrible ere yet the lightnings have leaped forth	K2
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'Like clouds inwoven in the silent sky	J
By winds from distant regions meeting there	C
In the high name of truth and liberty	J2
Around the City millions gathered were	C
By hopes which sprang from many a hidden lair	C
Words which the lore of truth in hues of flame	L2
Arrayed thine own wild songs which in the air	C
Like homeless odours floated and the name	L2
Of thee and many a tongue which thou hadst dipped in flame	L2
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'The Tyrant knew his power was gone but Fear	C
The nurse of Vengeance bade him wait the event	J2
That perfidy and custom gold and prayer	C
And whatsoe'er when force is impotent	J2
To fraud the sceptre of the world has lent	J2
Might as he judged confirm his failing sway	B
Therefore throughout the streets the Priests he sent	J2
To curse the rebels To their gods did they	B
For Earthquake Plague and Want kneel in the public way	B
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'And grave and hoary men were bribed to tell	H
From seats where law is made the slave of wrong	M2
How glorious Athens in her splendour fell	H
Because her sons were free and that among	N2
Mankind the many to the few belong	M2
By Heaven and Nature and Necessity	J2
They said that age was truth and that the young	N2
Marred with wild hopes the peace of slavery	J2
With which old times and men had quelled the vain and free	J2
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'And with the falsehood of their poisonous lips	O2
They breathed on the enduring memory	J2
Of sages and of bards a brief eclipse	O2
There was one teacher who necessity	J2
Had armed with strength and wrong against mankind	J2
His slave and his avenger aye to be	J2
That we were weak and sinful frail and blind	J2
And that the will of one was peace and we	J2
Should seek for nought on earth but toil and misery	J2
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' For thus we might avoid the hell hereafter	C
So spake the hypocrites who cursed and lied	J2
Alas their sway was past and tears and laughter	C
Clung to their hoary hair withering the pride	J2
Which in their hollow hearts dared still abide	J2
And yet obscener slaves with smoother brow	C
And sneers on their strait lips thin blue and wide	J2
Said that the rule of men was over now	C
And hence the subject world to woman's will must bow	C
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'And gold was scattered through the streets and wine	P2
Flowed at a hundred feasts within the wall	H
In vain the steady towers in Heaven did shine	P2
As they were wont nor at the priestly call	H
Left Plague her banquet in the Ethiop's hall	H
Nor Famine from the rich man's portal came	L2
Where at her ease she ever preys on all	H
Who throng to kneel for food nor fear nor shame	L2
Nor faith nor discord dimmed hope's newly kindled flame	L2
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'For gold was as a god whose faith began	Q2
To fade so that its worshippers were few	D
And Faith itself which in the heart of man	Q2
Gives shape voice name to spectral Terror knew	D
Its downfall as the altars lonelier grew	D
Till the Priests stood alone within the fane	I2
The shafts of falsehood unpolluting flew	D
And the cold sneers of calumny were vain	I2
The union of the free with discord's brand to stain	I2
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'The rest thou knowest Lo we two are here	C
We have survived a ruin wide and deep	I
Strange thoughts are mine I cannot grieve or fear	C
Sitting with thee upon this lonely steep	I
I smile though human love should make me weep	I
We have survived a joy that knows no sorrow	C
And I do feel a mighty calmness creep	I
Over my heart which can no longer borrow	C
Its hues from chance or change dark children of to morrow	C
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'We know not what will come yet Laon dearest	J2
Cythna shall be the prophetess of Love	A2
Her lips shall rob thee of the grace thou wearest	J2
To hide thy heart and clothe the shapes which rove	C2
Within the homeless Future's wintry grove	C2
For I now sitting thus beside thee seem	R2
Even with thy breath and blood to live and move	B2
And violence and wrong are as a dream	R2
Which rolls from steadfast truth an unreturning stream	R2
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'The blasts of Autumn drive the winged seeds	S2
Over the earth next come the snows and rain	I2
And frosts and storms which dreary Winter leads	S2
Out of his Scythian cave a savage train	I2
Behold Spring sweeps over the world again	T2
Shedding soft dews from her ethereal wings	U2
Flowers on the mountains fruits over the plain	I2
And music on the waves and woods she flings	U2
And love on all that lives and calm on lifeless things	U2
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'O Spring of hope and love and youth and gladness	U2
Wind winged emblem brightest best and fairest	J2
Whence comest thou when with dark Winter's sadness	U2
The tears that fade in sunny smiles thou sharest	J2
Sister of joy thou art the child who wearest	J2
Thy mother's dying smile tender and sweet	J2
Thy mother Autumn for whose grave thou bearest	J2
Fresh flowers and beams like flowers with gentle feet	J2
Disturbing not the leaves which are her winding sheet	J2
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'Virtue and Hope and Love like light and Heaven	E
Surround the world We are their chosen slaves	U2
Has not the whirlwind of our spirit driven	E
Truth's deathless germs to thought's remotest caves	U2
Lo Winter comes the grief of many graves	U2
The frost of death the tempest of the sword	J2
The flood of tyranny whose sanguine waves	U2
Stagnate like ice at Faith the enchanter's word	J2
And bind all human hearts in its repose abhorred	J2
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'The seeds are sleeping in the soil meanwhile	H
The Tyrant peoples dungeons with his prey	B
Pale victims on the guarded scaffold smile	H
Because they cannot speak and day by day	B
The moon of wasting Science wanes away	B
Among her stars and in that darkness vast	J2
The sons of earth to their foul idols pray	B
And gray Priests triumph and like blight or blast	J2
A shade of selfish care o'er human looks is cast	J2
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'This is the winter of the world and here	C
We die even as the winds of Autumn fade	J2
Expiring in the frore and foggy air	C
Behold Spring comes though we must pass who made	J2
The promise of its birth even as the shade	J2
Which from our death as from a mountain flings	U2
The future a broad sunrise thus arrayed	J2
As with the plumes of overshadowing wings	U2
From its dark gulf of chains Earth like an eagle springs	U2
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'O dearest love we shall be dead and cold	J2
Before this morn may on the world arise	U2
Wouldst thou the glory of its dawn behold	J2
Alas gaze not on me but turn thine eyes	U2
On thine own heart it is a paradise	U2
Which everlasting Spring has made its own	V2
And while drear Winter fills the naked skies	U2
Sweet streams of sunny thought and flowers fresh blown	V2
Are there and weave their sounds and odours into one	E
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'In their own hearts the earnest of the hope	W2
Which made them great the good will ever find	J2
And though some envious shade may interlope	W2
Between the effect and it One comes behind	J2
Who aye the future to the past will bind	J2
Necessity whose sightless strength for ever	C
Evil with evil good with good must wind	J2
In bands of union which no power may sever	C
They must bring forth their kind and be divided never	C
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'The good and mighty of departed ages	U2
Are in their graves the innocent and free	J2
Heroes and Poets and prevailing Sages	U2
Who leave the vesture of their majesty	J2
To adorn and clothe this naked world and we	J2
Are like to them such perish but they leave	X2
All hope or love or truth or liberty	J2
Whose forms their mighty spirits could conceive	X2
To be a rule and law to ages that survive	Y2
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'So be the turf heaped over our remains	U2
Even in our happy youth and that strange lot	J2
Whate'er it be when in these mingling veins	U2
The blood is still be ours let sense and thought	J2
Pass from our being or be numbered not	J2
Among the things that are let those who come	U
Behind for whom our steadfast will has bought	J2
A calm inheritance a glorious doom	Z2
Insult with careless tread our undivided tomb	Z2
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'Our many thoughts and deeds our life and love	A2
Our happiness and all that we have been	A3
Immortally must live and burn and move	B2
When we shall be no more the world has seen	B3
A type of peace and as some most serene	B3
And lovely spot to a poor maniac's eye	J
After long years some sweet and moving scene	B3
Of youthful hope returning suddenly	J2
Quells his long madness thus man shall remember thee	J2
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'And Calumny meanwhile shall feed on us	U2
As worms devour the dead and near the throne	V2
And at the altar most accepted thus	U2
Shall sneers and curses be what we have done	E
None shall dare vouch though it be truly known	V2
That record shall remain when they must pass	U2
Who built their pride on its oblivion	E
And fame in human hope which sculptured was	U2
Survive the perished scrolls of unenduring brass	U2
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'The while we two beloved must depart	J2
And Sense and Reason those enchanters fair	C
Whose wand of power is hope would bid the heart	J2
That gazed beyond the wormy grave despair	C
These eyes these lips this blood seems darkly there	C
To fade in hideous ruin no calm sleep	W2
Peopling with golden dreams the stagnant air	C
Seems our obscure and rotting eyes to steep	W2
In joy but senseless death a ruin dark and deep	W2
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'These are blind fancies reason cannot know	C
What sense can neither feel nor thought conceive	X2
There is delusion in the world and woe	C
And fear and pain we know not whence we live	Y2
Or why or how or what mute Power may give	C3
Their being to each plant and star and beast	J2
Or even these thoughts Come near me I do weave	X2
A chain I cannot break I am possessed	J2
With thoughts too swift and strong for one lone human breast	J2
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'Yes yes thy kiss is sweet thy lips are warm	D3
O willingly beloved would these eyes	U2
Might they no more drink being from thy form	D3
Even as to sleep whence we again arise	U2
Close their faint orbs in death I fear nor prize	U2
Aught that can now betide unshared by thee	J2
Yes Love when Wisdom fails makes Cythna wise	U2
Darkness and death if death be true must be	J2
Dearer than life and hope if unenjoyed with thee	J2
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'Alas our thoughts flow on with stream whose waters	U2
Return not to their fountain Earth and Heaven	E
The Ocean and the Sun the Clouds their daughters	U2
Winter and Spring and Morn and Noon and Even	A3
All that we are or know is darkly driven	E
Towards one gulf Lo what a change is come	U
Since I first spake but time shall be forgiven	E
Though it change all but thee ' She ceased night's gloom	Z2
Meanwhile had fallen on earth from the sky's sunless dome	E3
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Though she had ceased her countenance uplifted	J2
To Heaven still spake with solemn glory bright	J2
Her dark deep eyes her lips whose motions gifted	J2
The air they breathed with love her locks undight	J2
'Fair star of life and love ' I cried 'my soul's delight	J2
Why lookest thou on the crystalline skies	U2
O that my spirit were yon Heaven of night	J2
Which gazes on thee with its thousand eyes '	-
She turned to me and smiled that smile was Paradise	U2

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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