Sappho: A Monodrama Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Argument	A
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To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the	B
Greeks to be a remedy for hopeless love if the self devoted	C
victim escaped with life Artemisia lost her life in the	B
dangerous experiment and Sappho is said thus to have	D
perished in attempting to cure her passion for Phaon	E
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SAPPHO	F
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Scene the promontory of Leucadia	B
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This is the spot 'tis here Tradition says	G
That hopeless Love from this high towering rock	H
Leaps headlong to Oblivion or to Death	I
Oh 'tis a giddy height my dizzy head	J
Swims at the precipice 'tis death to fall	K
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Lie still thou coward heart this is no time	L
To shake with thy strong throbs the frame convuls'd	J
To die to be at rest oh pleasant thought	J
Perchance to leap and live the soul all still	M
And the wild tempest of the passions husht	J
In one deep calm the heart no more diseas'd	J
By the quick ague fits of hope and fear	N
Quietly cold	J
Presiding Powers look down	E
In vain to you I pour'd my earnest prayers	O
In vain I sung your praises chiefly thou	P
VENUS ungrateful Goddess whom my lyre	Q
Hymn'd with such full devotion Lesbian groves	R
Witness how often at the languid hour	S
Of summer twilight to the melting song	T
Ye gave your choral echoes Grecian Maids	U
Who hear with downcast look and flushing cheek	V
That lay of love bear witness and ye Youths	W
Who hang enraptur'd on the empassion'd strain	E
Gazing with eloquent eye even till the heart	J
Sinks in the deep delirium and ye too	J
Shall witness unborn Ages to that song	T
Of warmest zeal ah witness ye how hard	J
Her fate who hymn'd the votive hymn in vain	E
Ungrateful Goddess I have hung my lute	J
In yonder holy pile my hand no more	X
Shall wake the melodies that fail'd to move	Y
The heart of Phaon yet when Rumour tells	Z
How from Leucadia Sappho hurl'd her down	E
A self devoted victim he may melt	J
Too late in pity obstinate to love	A2
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Oh haunt his midnight dreams black NEMESIS	B2
Whom self conceiving in the inmost depths	C2
Of CHAOS blackest NIGHT long labouring bore	X
When the stern DESTINIES her elder brood	J
And shapeless DEATH from that more monstrous birth	D2
Leapt shuddering haunt his slumbers Nemesis	B2
Scorch with the fires of Phlegethon his heart	J
Till helpless hopeless heaven abandon'd wretch	E2
He too shall seek beneath the unfathom'd deep	F
To hide him from thy fury	F2
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How the sea	F2
Far distant glitters as the sun beams smile	G2
And gayly wanton o'er its heaving breast	J
Phoebus shines forth nor wears one cloud to mourn	E
His votary's sorrows God of Day shine on	E
By Man despis'd forsaken by the Gods	H2
I supplicate no more	X
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How many a day	J
O pleasant Lesbos in thy secret streams	I2
Delighted have I plung'd from the hot sun	E
Screen'd by the o'er arching groves delightful shade	J
And pillowed on the waters now the waves	J2
Shall chill me to repose	K2
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Tremendous height	J
Scarce to the brink will these rebellious limbs	L2
Support me Hark how the rude deep below	M2
Roars round the rugged base as if it called	J
Its long reluctant victim I will come	N2
One leap and all is over The deep rest	J
Of Death or tranquil Apathy's dead calm	O2
Welcome alike to me Away vain fears	P2
Phaon is cold and why should Sappho live	Q2
Phaon is cold or with some fairer one	E
Thought worse than death	I
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She throws herself from the precipice	R2
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Footnote A Greek transliterated	J
Ou tini choimaetheisa thea teche NUTH erezennae HESIOD	J

Robert Southey

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