Pan And Luna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDCEE FGFGFHIJ KLKMKLNN OPPPPPQQ RSRTRSPP UPUPUPPP VWVWVWQQ XSXSXSYY PPPPPPPP ZA2B2A2B2A2SPPPPPPSS SC2SC2SC2PP YD2YD2YD2E2E2

Si credere dignum est Virgil Georgics IIIA
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Oh worthy of belief I hold it wasB
Virgil your legend in those strange three linesC
No question that adventure came to passD
One black night in Arcadia yes the pinesC
Mountains and valleys mingling made one massD
Of black with void black heaven the earth's confinesC
The sky's embrace below above aroundE
All hardened into black without a boundE
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Fill up a swart stone chalice to the brimF
With fresh squeezed yet fast thickening poppy juiceG
See how the sluggish jelly late a swimF
Turns marble to the touch of who would looseG
The solid smooth grown jet from rim to rimF
By turning round the bowl So night can fuseH
Earth with her all comprising sky No lessI
Light the least spark shows air and emptinessJ
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And thus it proved when diving into spaceK
Stript of all vapor from each web of mistL
Utterly film free entered on her raceK
The naked Moon full orbed antagonistM
Of night and dark night's dowry peak to baseK
Upstarted mountains and each valley kissedL
To sudden life lay silver bright in airN
Flew she revealed Maid Moon with limbs all bareN
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Still as she fled each depth where refuge seemedO
Opening a lone pale chamber left distinctP
Those limbs mid still retreating blue she teemedP
Herself with whiteness virginal uncinctP
By any halo save what finely gleamedP
To outline not disguise her heavenwas linkedP
In one accord with earth to quaff the joyQ
Drain beauty to the dregs without alloyQ
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Whereof she grew aware What help When loR
A succorable cloud with sleep lay denseS
Some pinetree top had caught it sailing slowR
And tethered for a prize in evidenceT
Captive lay fleece on fleece of piled up snowR
Drowsily patient flake heaped how or whenceS
The structure of that succorable cloudP
What matter Shamed she plunged into its shroudP
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Orbed so the woman figure poets callU
Because of rounds on rounds that apple shapedP
Head which its hair binds close into a ballU
Each side the curving ears that pure undrapedP
Pout of the sister paps that once for allU
Say her consummate circle thus escapedP
With its innumerous circlets sank absorbedP
Safe in the cloud O naked Moon full orbedP
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But what means this The downy swathes combineV
Conglobe the smothery coy caressing stuffW
Curdles about her Vain each twist and twineV
Those lithe limbs try encroached on by a fluffW
Fitting as close as fits the dented spineV
Its flexible ivory outside flesh enoughW
The plumy drifts contract condense constringeQ
Till she is swallowed by the feathery springeQ
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As when a pearl slips lost in the thin foamX
Churned on a sea shore and o'er frothed conceitsS
Herself safe housed in Amphitrite's domeX
If through the bladdery wave worked yeast she meetsS
What most she loathes and leaps from elf from gnomeX
No gladlier finds that safest of retreatsS
Bubble about a treacherous hand wide opeY
To grasp her divers who pick pearls so gropeY
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So lay this Maid Moon clasped around and caughtP
By rough red Pan the god of all that tractP
He it was schemed the snare thus subtly wroughtP
With simulated earth breath wool tufts packedP
Into a billowy wrappage Sheep far soughtP
For spotless shearings yield such take the factP
As learned Virgil gives it how the breedP
Whitens itself forever yes indeedP
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If one forefather ram though pure as chalkZ
From tinge on fleece should still display a tongueA2
Black 'neath the beast's moist palate prompt men balkB2
The propagating plague he gets no youngA2
They rather slay him sell his hide to calkB2
Ships with first steeped with pitch nor hands are wrungA2
In sorrow for his fate protected thusS
The purity we loved is gained for us So did girl Moon by just her attributeP
Of unmatched modesty betrayed lie trappedP
Bruised to the breast of Pan half god half bruteP
Raked by his bristly boar sward while he lappedP
Never say kissed her that were to polluteP
Love's language which moreover proves unaptP
To tell how she recoiled as who finds thornsS
Where she sought flowers when feeling she touched hornsS
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Then does the legend say first moon eclipseS
Happened first swooning fit which puzzled soreC2
The early sages Is that why she dipsS
Into the dark a minute and no moreC2
Only so long as serves her while she ripsS
The cloud's womb through and faultless as beforeC2
Pursues her way No lesson for a maidP
Left she a maid herself thus trapped betrayedP
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Ha Virgil Tell the rest you To the deepY
Of his domain the wildwood Pan forthwithD2
Called her and so she followed in her sleepY
Surely by no means spurning him The mythD2
Explain who may Let all else go I keepY
As of a ruin just a monolithD2
Thus much one verse of five words each a boonE2
Arcadia night a cloud Pan and the moonE2

Robert Browning



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