Pan And Luna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDCEE FGFGFHIJ KLKMKLNN OPPPPPQQ RSRTRSPP UPUPUPPP VWVWVWQQ XSXSXSYY PPPPPPPP ZA2B2A2B2A2SPPPPPPSS SC2SC2SC2PP YD2YD2YD2E2E2Si credere dignum est Virgil Georgics III | A |
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Oh worthy of belief I hold it was | B |
Virgil your legend in those strange three lines | C |
No question that adventure came to pass | D |
One black night in Arcadia yes the pines | C |
Mountains and valleys mingling made one mass | D |
Of black with void black heaven the earth's confines | C |
The sky's embrace below above around | E |
All hardened into black without a bound | E |
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Fill up a swart stone chalice to the brim | F |
With fresh squeezed yet fast thickening poppy juice | G |
See how the sluggish jelly late a swim | F |
Turns marble to the touch of who would loose | G |
The solid smooth grown jet from rim to rim | F |
By turning round the bowl So night can fuse | H |
Earth with her all comprising sky No less | I |
Light the least spark shows air and emptiness | J |
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And thus it proved when diving into space | K |
Stript of all vapor from each web of mist | L |
Utterly film free entered on her race | K |
The naked Moon full orbed antagonist | M |
Of night and dark night's dowry peak to base | K |
Upstarted mountains and each valley kissed | L |
To sudden life lay silver bright in air | N |
Flew she revealed Maid Moon with limbs all bare | N |
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Still as she fled each depth where refuge seemed | O |
Opening a lone pale chamber left distinct | P |
Those limbs mid still retreating blue she teemed | P |
Herself with whiteness virginal uncinct | P |
By any halo save what finely gleamed | P |
To outline not disguise her heavenwas linked | P |
In one accord with earth to quaff the joy | Q |
Drain beauty to the dregs without alloy | Q |
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Whereof she grew aware What help When lo | R |
A succorable cloud with sleep lay dense | S |
Some pinetree top had caught it sailing slow | R |
And tethered for a prize in evidence | T |
Captive lay fleece on fleece of piled up snow | R |
Drowsily patient flake heaped how or whence | S |
The structure of that succorable cloud | P |
What matter Shamed she plunged into its shroud | P |
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Orbed so the woman figure poets call | U |
Because of rounds on rounds that apple shaped | P |
Head which its hair binds close into a ball | U |
Each side the curving ears that pure undraped | P |
Pout of the sister paps that once for all | U |
Say her consummate circle thus escaped | P |
With its innumerous circlets sank absorbed | P |
Safe in the cloud O naked Moon full orbed | P |
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But what means this The downy swathes combine | V |
Conglobe the smothery coy caressing stuff | W |
Curdles about her Vain each twist and twine | V |
Those lithe limbs try encroached on by a fluff | W |
Fitting as close as fits the dented spine | V |
Its flexible ivory outside flesh enough | W |
The plumy drifts contract condense constringe | Q |
Till she is swallowed by the feathery springe | Q |
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As when a pearl slips lost in the thin foam | X |
Churned on a sea shore and o'er frothed conceits | S |
Herself safe housed in Amphitrite's dome | X |
If through the bladdery wave worked yeast she meets | S |
What most she loathes and leaps from elf from gnome | X |
No gladlier finds that safest of retreats | S |
Bubble about a treacherous hand wide ope | Y |
To grasp her divers who pick pearls so grope | Y |
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So lay this Maid Moon clasped around and caught | P |
By rough red Pan the god of all that tract | P |
He it was schemed the snare thus subtly wrought | P |
With simulated earth breath wool tufts packed | P |
Into a billowy wrappage Sheep far sought | P |
For spotless shearings yield such take the fact | P |
As learned Virgil gives it how the breed | P |
Whitens itself forever yes indeed | P |
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If one forefather ram though pure as chalk | Z |
From tinge on fleece should still display a tongue | A2 |
Black 'neath the beast's moist palate prompt men balk | B2 |
The propagating plague he gets no young | A2 |
They rather slay him sell his hide to calk | B2 |
Ships with first steeped with pitch nor hands are wrung | A2 |
In sorrow for his fate protected thus | S |
The purity we loved is gained for us So did girl Moon by just her attribute | P |
Of unmatched modesty betrayed lie trapped | P |
Bruised to the breast of Pan half god half brute | P |
Raked by his bristly boar sward while he lapped | P |
Never say kissed her that were to pollute | P |
Love's language which moreover proves unapt | P |
To tell how she recoiled as who finds thorns | S |
Where she sought flowers when feeling she touched horns | S |
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Then does the legend say first moon eclipse | S |
Happened first swooning fit which puzzled sore | C2 |
The early sages Is that why she dips | S |
Into the dark a minute and no more | C2 |
Only so long as serves her while she rips | S |
The cloud's womb through and faultless as before | C2 |
Pursues her way No lesson for a maid | P |
Left she a maid herself thus trapped betrayed | P |
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Ha Virgil Tell the rest you To the deep | Y |
Of his domain the wildwood Pan forthwith | D2 |
Called her and so she followed in her sleep | Y |
Surely by no means spurning him The myth | D2 |
Explain who may Let all else go I keep | Y |
As of a ruin just a monolith | D2 |
Thus much one verse of five words each a boon | E2 |
Arcadia night a cloud Pan and the moon | E2 |
Robert Browning
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