Prometheus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJKLLLLMN LLLLOOLLPPQQ RSTUVVLLWWQQLLXX| What 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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