Solar Eclipse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC CDAE CCCFCCGHIJK LMNOCM PC QRSTU| Observe these blue solemnities of sky | A |
| Offering for the academes of after ages | B |
| A mythologic welkin freaked with white | C |
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| Listen one tiny tinkling rivulet | C |
| Accentuates the super sultry stillness | D |
| That drones on ripening landscapes which imply | A |
| Serene Parnassus plagued with amorous goats | E |
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| Far down the vale Apollo has pursued | C |
| The noon bedazzled nymph whose hunted heart | C |
| Holds but the trampling panic whence it fled | C |
| And now the heavens are piled with darkening trouble | F |
| And counter march of clouds that troop intent | C |
| Fire crested into conflict | C |
| Daphne turns | G |
| At the wood's edge in bronze and olive gloom | H |
| Sickness assails the sun whose blazing disc | I |
| Dwindles the Eden of those auburn slopes | J |
| Lours in the tarnished copper of eclipse | K |
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| Yet virgin in her god impelled approach | L |
| To Graeco Roman ravishment she waits | M |
| While the unsated python slides to crush | N |
| Her lust eluding fleetness Envious Jove | O |
| Rumbles Olympus All the classic world | C |
| Leans breathless toward the legend she creates | M |
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| From thunderous vapour smites the immortal beam | P |
| Then crowned with fangs of foliage flames the god | C |
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| ' Apollo ' Up the autumn valley echoes | Q |
| A hollow shout from nowhere Daphne's limbs | R |
| Lapse into laureldom green shadowed flesh | S |
| Writhes aborescent glamour obscures her gaze | T |
| With blind and bossed distortion She escapes | U |
Siegfried Sassoon
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