Artemis Prologuizes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F2G2 H2I2J2K2L2M2N2O2P2Q2 R2S2F2T2U2C2Q2BV2BW2 N2X2L2BY2Z2BN2Z2BBA2 A3BH2B3BBZ2Z2C3D3BE3 BF3A2BG3BZ2BBZ2BH3I3 BBJ2Z2Z2J2BLJ3K3BBZ2 BZ2B3L3M3BZ2N3O3BP3O 3Z2Z2Z2P3B| I am a Goddess of the ambrosial courts | A |
| And save by Here Queen of Pride surpassed | B |
| By none whose temples whiten this the world | C |
| Thro' Heaven I roll my lucid moon along | D |
| I shed in Hell o'er my pale people peace | E |
| On Earth I caring for the creatures guard | F |
| Each pregnant yellow wolf and fox bitch sleek | G |
| And every feathered mother's callow brood | H |
| And all that love green haunts and loneliness | I |
| Of men the chaste adore me hanging crowns | J |
| Of poppies red to blackness bell and stem | K |
| Upon my image at Athenai here | L |
| And this dead Youth Asclepios bends above | M |
| Was dearest to me He my buskined step | N |
| To follow thro' the wild wood leafy ways | O |
| And chase the panting stag or swift with darts | P |
| Stop the swift ounce or lay the leopard low | Q |
| Neglected homage to another God | R |
| Whence Aphrodite by no midnight smoke | S |
| Of tapers lulled in jealousy dispatched | T |
| A noisome lust that as the gadbee stings | U |
| Possessed his stepdame Phaidra for himself | V |
| The son of Theseus her great absent spouse | W |
| Hippolutos exclaiming in his rage | X |
| Against the miserable Queen she judged | Y |
| Life insupportable and pricked at heart | Z |
| An Amazonian stranger's race should dare | A2 |
| To scorn her perished by the murderous cord | B2 |
| Yet ere she perished blasted in a scroll | C2 |
| The fame of him her swerving made not swerve | D2 |
| Which Theseus read returning and believed | E2 |
| So exiled in the blindness of his wrath | F2 |
| The man without a crime who last as first | G2 |
| Loyal divulged not to his sire the truth | H2 |
| Now Theseus from Poseidon had obtained | I2 |
| That of his wishes should be granted Three | J2 |
| And this he imprecated straight alive | K2 |
| May ne'er Hippolutos reach other lands | L2 |
| Poseidon heard ai ai And scarce the prince | M2 |
| Had stepped into the fixed boots of the car | N2 |
| That gave the feet a stay against the strength | O2 |
| Of the Henetian horses and around | P2 |
| His body flung the reins and urged their speed | Q2 |
| Along the rocks and shingles of the shore | R2 |
| When from the gaping wave a monster flung | S2 |
| His obscene body in the coursers' path | F2 |
| These mad with terror as the sea bull sprawled | T2 |
| Wallowing about their feet lost care of him | U2 |
| That reared them and the master chariot pole | C2 |
| Snapping beneath their plunges like a reed | Q2 |
| Hippolutos whose feet were trammeled fast | B |
| Was yet dragged forward by the circling rein | V2 |
| Which either hand directed nor was quenched | B |
| The frenzy of that flight before each trace | W2 |
| Wheel spoke and splinter of the woeful car | N2 |
| Each boulder stone sharp stub and spiny shell | X2 |
| Huge fish bone wrecked and wreathed amid the sands | L2 |
| On that detested beach was bright with blood | B |
| And morsels of his flesh then fell the steeds | Y2 |
| Head foremost crashing in their mooned fronts | Z2 |
| Shivering with sweat each white eye horror fixed | B |
| His people who had witnessed all afar | N2 |
| Bore back the ruins of Hippolutos | Z2 |
| But when his sire too swoln with pride rejoiced | B |
| Indomitable as a man foredoomed | B |
| That vast Poseidon had fulfilled his prayer | A2 |
| I in a flood of glory visible | A3 |
| Stood o'er my dying votary and deed | B |
| By deed revealed as all took place the truth | H2 |
| Then Theseus lay the woefullest of men | B3 |
| And worthily but ere the death veils hid | B |
| His face the murdered prince full pardon breathed | B |
| To his rash sire Whereat Athenai wails | Z2 |
| So I who ne'er forsake my votaries | Z2 |
| Lest in the cross way none the honey cake | C3 |
| Should tender nor pour out the dog's hot life | D3 |
| Lest at my fain the priests disconsolate | B |
| Should dress my image with some faded poor | E3 |
| Few crowns made favours of nor dare object | B |
| Such slackness to my worshippers who turn | F3 |
| The trusting heart and loaded hand elsewhere | A2 |
| As they had climbed Oulumpos to report | B |
| Of Artemis and nowhere found her throne | G3 |
| I interposed and this eventful night | B |
| While round the funeral pyre the populace | Z2 |
| Stood with fierce light on their black robes that blind | B |
| Each sobbing head while yet their hair they clipped | B |
| O'er the dead body of their withered prince | Z2 |
| And in his palace Theseus prostrated | B |
| On the cold hearth his brow cold as the slab | H3 |
| 'Twas bruised on groaned away the heavy grief | I3 |
| As the pyre fell and down the cross logs crashed | B |
| Sending a crowd of sparkles thro' the night | B |
| And the gay fire elate with mastery | J2 |
| Towered like a serpent o'er the clotted jars | Z2 |
| Of wine dissolving oils and frankincense | Z2 |
| And splendid gums like gold my potency | J2 |
| Conveyed the perished man to my retreat | B |
| In the thrice venerable forest here | L |
| And this white bearded Sage who squeezes now | J3 |
| The berried plant is Phoibos' son of fame | K3 |
| Asclepios whom my radiant brother taught | B |
| The doctrine of each herb and flower and root | B |
| To know their secret'st virtue and express | Z2 |
| The saving soul of all who so has soothed | B |
| With lavers the torn brow and murdered cheeks | Z2 |
| Composed the hair and brought its gloss again | B3 |
| And called the red bloom to the pale skin back | L3 |
| And laid the strips and jagged ends of flesh | M3 |
| Even once more and slacked the sinew's knot | B |
| Of every tortured limb that now he lies | Z2 |
| As if mere sleep possessed him underneath | N3 |
| These interwoven oaks and pines Oh cheer | O3 |
| Divine presenter of the healing rod | B |
| Thy snake with ardent throat and lulling eye | P3 |
| Twines his lithe spires around I say much cheer | O3 |
| Proceed thou with thy wisest pharmacies | Z2 |
| And ye white crowd of woodland sister nymphs | Z2 |
| Ply as the Sage directs these buds and leaves | Z2 |
| That strew the turf around the Twain While I | P3 |
| Await in fitting silence the event | B |
Robert Browning
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