Acon And Rhodope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHGIJKGLMGH GNOPQRSTUAGVG WRXGGGYZA2B2C2 D2E2RGGGF2G2 H2GGGLJI2C2 GOGA D2J2 GA2D2JGG GD2K2L2QA2RGD2GGA2 GL2GM2GUGN2GUO2GP2GQ 2XR2GGGGS2UT2U2GG GGGUIGG GGGUThe Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by | A |
Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve | B |
Some froward some sedater some adorn'd | C |
For festival some reckless of attire | D |
The snow had left the mountain top fresh flowers | E |
Had withered in the meadow fig and prune | F |
Hung wrinkling the last apple glow'd amid | G |
Its freckled leaves and weary oxen blinkt | G |
Between the trodden corn and twisted vine | H |
Under whose bunches stood the empty crate | G |
To creak ere long beneath them carried home | I |
This was the season when twelve months before | J |
O gentle Hamadryad true to love | K |
Thy mansion thy dim mansion in the wood | G |
Was blasted and laid desolate but none | L |
Dared violate its precincts none dared pluck | M |
The moss beneath it which alone remain'd | G |
Of what was thine | H |
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Old Thallinos sat mute | G |
In solitary sadness The strange tale | N |
Not until Rhaicos died but then the whole | O |
Echion had related whom no force | P |
Could ever make look back upon the oaks | Q |
The father said Echion thou must weigh | R |
Carefully and with steady hand enough | S |
Although no longer comes the store as once | T |
Of wax to burn all day and night upon | U |
That hollow stone where milk and honey lie | A |
So may the Gods so may the dead be pleas'd | G |
Thallinos bore it thither in the morn | V |
And lighted it and left it | G |
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First of those | W |
Who visited upon this solemn day | R |
The Hamadryad's oak were Rhodope | X |
And Acon of one age one hope one trust | G |
Graceful was she as was the nymph whose fate | G |
She sorrowed for he slender pale and first | G |
Lapt by the flame of love his father's lands | Y |
Were fertile herds lowed over them afar | Z |
Now stood the two aside the hollow stone | A2 |
And lookt with stedfast eyes toward the oak | B2 |
Shivered and black and bare | C2 |
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May never we | D2 |
Love as they loved said Acon She at this | E2 |
Smiled for he said not what he meant to say | R |
And thought not of its bliss but of its end | G |
He caught the flying smile and blusht and vow'd | G |
Nor time nor other power whereto the might | G |
Of love hath yielded and may yield again | F2 |
Should alter his | G2 |
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The father of the youth | H2 |
Wanted not beauty for him wanted not | G |
Song that could lift earth's weight from off his heart | G |
Discretion that could guide him thro' the world | G |
Innocence that could clear his way to heaven | L |
Silver and gold and land not green before | J |
The ancestral gate but purple under skies | I2 |
Bending far off he wanted for his heir | C2 |
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Fathers have given life but virgin heart | G |
They never gave and dare they then control | O |
Or check it harshly dare they break a bond | G |
Girt round it by the holiest Power on high | A |
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Acon was grieved he said grieved bitterly | D2 |
But Acon had complied 'twas dutiful | J2 |
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Crush thy own heart Man Man but fear to wound | G |
The gentler that relies on thee alone | A2 |
By thee created weak or strong by thee | D2 |
Touch it not but for worship watch before | J |
Its sanctuary nor leave it till are closed | G |
The temple doors and the last lamp is spent | G |
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Rhodope in her soul's waste solitude | G |
Sate mournful by the dull resounding sea | D2 |
Often not hearing it and many tears | K2 |
Had the cold breezes hardened on her cheek | L2 |
Meanwhile he sauntered in the wood of oaks | Q |
Nor shun'd to look upon the hollow stone | A2 |
That held the milk and honey nor to lay | R |
His plighted hand where recently 'twas laid | G |
Opposite hers when finger playfully | D2 |
Advanced and pusht back finger on each side | G |
He did not think of this as she would do | G |
If she were there alone | A2 |
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The day was hot | G |
The moss invited him it cool'd his cheek | L2 |
It cool'd his hands he thrust them into it | G |
And sank to slumber Never was there dream | M2 |
Divine as his He saw the Hamadryad | G |
She took him by the arm and led him on | U |
Along a valley where profusely grew | G |
The smaller lilies with their pendent bells | N2 |
And hiding under mint chill drosera | G |
The violet shy of butting cyclamen | U |
The feathery fern and browser of moist banks | O2 |
Her offspring round her the soft strawberry | G |
The quivering spray of ruddy tamarisk | P2 |
The oleander's light hair'd progeny | G |
Breathing bright freshness in each other's face | Q2 |
And graceful rose bending her brow with cup | X |
Of fragrance and of beauty boon for Gods | R2 |
The fragrance fill'd his breast with such delight | G |
His senses were bewildered and he thought | G |
He saw again the face he most had loved | G |
He stopt the Hamadryad at his side | G |
Now stood between then drew him farther off | S2 |
He went compliant as before but soon | U |
Verdure had ceast altho' the ground was smooth | T2 |
Nothing was there delightful At this change | U2 |
He would have spoken but his guide represt | G |
All questioning and said | G |
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Weak youth what brought | G |
Thy footstep to this wood my native haunt | G |
My life long residence this bank where first | G |
I sate with him the faithful now I know | U |
Too late the faithful Rhaicos Haste thee home | I |
Be happy if thou canst but come no more | G |
Where those whom death alone could sever died | G |
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He started up the moss whereon he slept | G |
Was dried and withered deadlier paleness spread | G |
Over his cheek he sickened and the sire | G |
Had land enough it held his only son | U |
Walter Savage Landor
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