The Psalm Of Adonis - From Fifteenth Idyll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBABBABADEDFGBDHI JKLJMNADOBDBPGBJQRBB BBFBJSTBUEBDBJBVBBBB JBD| O Queen that loves Golgi and Idalium | A |
| And the steep of Eryx | B |
| O Aphrodite that playes with gold | C |
| Lo from the stream eternal of Acheron | D |
| They have brought back to you Adonis | B |
| Even in the twelfth month they have brought him | A |
| The dainty footed Hours | B |
| Tardiest of the Immortals are the beloved Hours | B |
| But dear and desired they come | A |
| For always to all mortals | B |
| They bring some gift with them | A |
| O Cypris daughter of Dione | D |
| From mortal to immortal so men tell | E |
| You have changed Berenice dropping softly in | D |
| The woman's breast the stuff of immortality | F |
| Therefore for your delight | G |
| O you of many names and many temples | B |
| Does the daughter of Berenice even Arsino | D |
| Lovely as Helen cherish Adonis with all things beautiful | H |
| Before him lie all ripe fruits that the tall trees' branches bear | I |
| And the delicate gardens arrayed in baskets of silver | J |
| And the golden vessels are full of incense of Syria | K |
| And all the dainty cakes that women fashion in the kneading tray | L |
| Mingling blossoms manifold with the white wheaten flour | J |
| All that is wrought of honey sweet and in soft olive oil | M |
| All cakes fashioned in the semblance of things that fly | N |
| And of things that creep lo here they are set before him | A |
| Here are built for him shadowy bowers of green | D |
| All laden with tender anise and children flit overhead | O |
| The little loves | B |
| As the young nightingales perched upon | D |
| The trees fly forth and try their wings | B |
| From bough to bough | P |
| O the ebony O the gold O the twin eagles of white | G |
| Ivory that carry to Zeus the son of Cronos | B |
| His darling his cupbearer | J |
| O the purple coverlet strewn above | Q |
| More soft than sleep | R |
| So Miletus will say | B |
| And whoso feeds sheep in Samos | B |
| Another bed is strewn for beautiful Adonis | B |
| One bed Cypris keeps and one the rosy armed Adonis | B |
| A bride groom of eighteen or nineteen years is he | F |
| His kisses are not rough the golden down being yet upon his lips | B |
| And now good night to Cypris in the arms of her lover | J |
| But lo in the morning we will all of us gather with the dew | S |
| And carry him forth among the waves that break upon the beach | T |
| And with locks unloosed and ungirt raiment falling to the ankles | B |
| And bosom bare will we begin our shrill sweet song | U |
| You only dear Adonis so men tell | E |
| You only of the demi gods | B |
| Do visit both this world and the stream of Acheron | D |
| For Agamemnon had no such lot nor Aias | B |
| That mighty lord of the terrible anger nor Hector | J |
| The eldest born of the twenty sons of Hecuba nor Patroclus | B |
| Nor Pyrrhus that returned out of Troy land | V |
| Nor the heroes of yet more ancient days | B |
| The Lapithai and Deucalion's sons | B |
| Nor the sons of Pelops and the chiefs of Pelasgian Argos | B |
| Be gracious now dear Adonis and propitious | B |
| Even in the coming year | J |
| Dear to us has your advent been Adonis | B |
| And dear shall it be when you come again | D |
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