The Fall Of Hebe. A Dithyrambic Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEEBFDGAHCH IGJFKJLKMLDI NMOONIPIQIQB PRRISBTUTIIEEUS VWIVIIXXIYEYYWIT TYOZYA2IIIIB2C2C2B2A AOOIIIO IYIYD2TTE2D2 ID2IYF2IIAIIA OYG2H2OTIYI2J2ITJ2YY IIBIBIK2IK2III AYUYUYUIIIL2UL2OUUIO YYF2IF2I'Twas on a day | A |
When the immortals at their banquet lay | A |
The bowl | B |
Sparkled with starry dew | C |
The weeping of those myriad urns of light | D |
Within whose orbs the Almighty Power | E |
At nature's dawning hour | E |
Stored the rich fluid of ethereal soul | B |
Around | F |
Soft odorous clouds that upward wing their flight | D |
From eastern isles | G |
Where they have bathed them in the orient ray | A |
And with rich fragrance all their bosoms filled | H |
In circles flew and melting as they flew | C |
A liquid daybreak o'er the board distilled | H |
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All all was luxury | I |
All must be luxury where Lyaeus smiles | G |
His locks divine | J |
Were crowned | F |
With a bright meteor braid | K |
Which like an ever springing wreath of vine | J |
Shot into brilliant leafy shapes | L |
And o'er his brow in lambent tendrils played | K |
While mid the foliage hung | M |
Like lucid grapes | L |
A thousand clustering buds of light | D |
Culled from the garden of the galaxy | I |
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Upon his bosom Cytherea's head | N |
Lay lovely as when first the Syrens sung | M |
Her beauty's dawn | O |
And all the curtains of the deep undrawn | O |
Revealed her sleeping in its azure bed | N |
The captive deity | I |
Hung lingering on her eyes and lip | P |
With looks of ecstasy | I |
Now on his arm | Q |
In blushes she reposed | I |
And while he gazed on each bright charm | Q |
To shade his burning eyes her hand in dalliance stole | B |
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And now she raised her rosy mouth to sip | P |
The nectared wave | R |
Lyaeus gave | R |
And from her eyelids half way closed | I |
Sent forth a melting gleam | S |
Which fell like sun dew in the bowl | B |
While her bright hair in mazy flow | T |
Of gold descending | U |
Adown her cheek's luxurious glow | T |
Hung o'er the goblet's side | I |
And was reflected in its crystal tide | I |
Like a bright crocus flower | E |
Whose sunny leaves at evening hour | E |
With roses of Cyrene blending | U |
Hang o'er the mirror of some silvery stream | S |
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The Olympian cup | V |
Shone in the hands | W |
Of dimpled Hebe as she winged her feet | I |
Up | V |
The empyreal mount | I |
To drain the soul drops at their stellar fount | I |
And still | X |
As the resplendent rill | X |
Gushed forth into the cup with mantling heat | I |
Her watchful care | Y |
Was still to cool its liquid fire | E |
With snow white sprinklings of that feathery air | Y |
The children of the Pole respire | Y |
In those enchanted lands | W |
Where life is all a spring and | I |
north winds never blow | T |
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But oh | T |
Bright Hebe what a tear | Y |
And what a blush were thine | O |
When as the breath of every Grace | Z |
Wafted thy feet along the studded sphere | Y |
With a bright cup for Jove himself to drink | A2 |
Some star that shone beneath thy tread | I |
Raising its amorous head | I |
To kiss those matchless feet | I |
Checked thy career too fleet | I |
And all heaven's host of eyes | B2 |
Entranced but fearful all | C2 |
Saw thee sweet Hebe prostrate fall | C2 |
Upon the bright floor of the azure skies | B2 |
Where mid its stars thy beauty lay | A |
As blossom shaken from the spray | A |
Of a spring thorn | O |
Lies mid the liquid sparkles of the morn | O |
Or as in temples of the Paphian shade | I |
The worshippers of Beauty's queen behold | I |
An image of their rosy idol laid | I |
Upon a diamond shrine | O |
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The wanton wind | I |
Which had pursued the flying fair | Y |
And sported mid the tresses unconfined | I |
Of her bright hair | Y |
Now as she fell oh wanton breeze | D2 |
Ruffled the robe whose graceful flow | T |
Hung o'er those limbs of unsunned snow | T |
Purely as the Eleusinian veil | E2 |
Hangs o'er the Mysteries | D2 |
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The brow of Juno flushed | I |
Love blest the breeze | D2 |
The Muses blushed | I |
And every cheek was hid behind a lyre | Y |
While every eye looked laughing through the strings | F2 |
But the bright cup the nectared draught | I |
Which Jove himself was to have quaffed | I |
Alas alas upturned it lay | A |
By the fallen Hebe's side | I |
While in slow lingering drops the ethereal tide | I |
As conscious of its own rich essence ebbed away | A |
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Who was the Spirit that remembered Man | O |
In that blest hour | Y |
And with a wing of love | G2 |
Brushed off the goblet's scattered tears | H2 |
As trembling near the edge of heaven they ran | O |
And sent them floating to our orb below | T |
Essence of immortality | I |
The shower | Y |
Fell glowing through the spheres | I2 |
While all around new tints of bliss | J2 |
New odors and new light | I |
Enriched its radiant flow | T |
Now with a liquid kiss | J2 |
It stole along the thrilling wire | Y |
Of Heaven's luminous Lyre | Y |
Stealing the soul of music in its flight | I |
And now amid the breezes bland | I |
That whisper from the planets as they roll | B |
The bright libation softly fanned | I |
By all their sighs meandering stole | B |
They who from Atlas' height | I |
Beheld this rosy flame | K2 |
Descending through the waste of night | I |
Thought 'twas some planet whose empyreal frame | K2 |
Had kindled as it rapidly revolved | I |
Around its fervid axle and dissolved | I |
Into a flood so bright | I |
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The youthful Day | A |
Within his twilight bower | Y |
Lay sweetly sleeping | U |
On the flushed bosom of a lotos flower | Y |
When round him in profusion weeping | U |
Dropt the celestial shower | Y |
Steeping | U |
The rosy clouds that curled | I |
About his infant head | I |
Like myrrh upon the locks of Cupid shed | I |
But when the waking boy | L2 |
Waved his exhaling tresses through the sky | U |
O morn of joy | L2 |
The tide divine | O |
All glorious with the vermil dye | U |
It drank beneath his orient eye | U |
Distilled in dews upon the world | I |
And every drop was wine was heavenly WINE | O |
Blest be the sod and blest the flower | Y |
On which descended first that shower | Y |
All fresh from Jove's nectareous springs | F2 |
Oh far less sweet the flower the sod | I |
O'er which the Spirit of the Rainbow flings | F2 |
The magic mantle of her solar God | I |
Thomas Moore
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