Prometheus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJKLLLLMN LLLLOOLLPPQQ RSTUVVLLWWQQLLXXWhat sovereign good shall satiate man's desires | A |
Propell'd by Hope's unconquerable fires | A |
Vain each bright bauble by ambition prized | B |
Unwon 'tis worshipp'd but possess'd despised | B |
Yet all defect with virtue shines allied | C |
His mightiest impulse genius owes to pride | C |
From conquer'd science graced with glorious spoils | D |
He still dares on demands sublimer toils | D |
And had not Nature check'd his vent'rous wing | E |
His eye had pierced her at her primal spring | E |
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Thus when enwrapt Prometheus strove to trace | F |
Inspired perceptions of celestial grace | F |
Th' ideal spirit fugitive as wind | G |
Art's forceful spells in adamant confined | G |
Curved with nice chisel floats the obsequious line | H |
From stone unconscious beauty beams divine | H |
On magic poised th' exulting structure swims | I |
And spurns attraction with elastic limbs | I |
While ravish'd fancy vivifies the form | J |
While judgment toils to analyze its charm | K |
While admiration spreads her speaking hands | L |
The lofty artist undelighted stands | L |
He longs to ravish from the bless'd abodes | L |
The seal of heaven the attribute of gods | L |
To give his labour more than man can give | M |
Breathe Jove's own breath and bid the marble live | N |
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Won from her woof embellishing the skies | L |
Descending Pallas soothes her vot'ry's sighs | L |
Where 'midst the twilight of o'er arching groves | L |
By waking visions led th' enthusiast roves | L |
Like summer suns by showery clouds conceal'd | O |
With sudden blaze the goddess shines reveal'd | O |
Behold she cries in thy distinguished cause | L |
I challenge Jove's inexorable laws | L |
With life stol'n essence let th' awaken'd stone | P |
A super human generation own | P |
Defrauded nature shall admire the deed | Q |
And time recoil at thy immortal meed | Q |
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Impregn'd with action and convoked to breathe | R |
Sighs the still form his ardent hands beneath | S |
Electric lustres flash from either eve | T |
O'er its pale cheeks suffusive flushes fly | U |
And glossy damps its clust'ring curls adorn | V |
Like dew drops bright'ning on the brows of morn | V |
Through nerves that vibrate in unfolding chains | L |
Foams the warm life blood excavating veins | L |
'Till all infused and organized the whole | W |
The finish'd fabric hails the breathing soul | W |
Then waked tumultuous in th' alarmed breast | Q |
Contending passions claim th' etherial guest | Q |
And still as each alternate empire proves | L |
She hopes she fears she envies and she loves | L |
Owns all sensations that deride the span | X |
And eternize the little life of man | X |
Thomas Gent
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