Corinna, From Athens, To Tanagra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IJIJKKLL MNMNOPQR KEKESSTT| Tanagra think not I forget | A |
| Thy beautifully storey d streets | B |
| Be sure my memory bathes yet | A |
| In clear Thermodon and yet greets | B |
| The blythe and liberal shepherd boy | C |
| Whose sunny bosom swells with joy | C |
| When we accept his matted rushes | D |
| Upheaved with sylvan fruit away he bounds and blushes | D |
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| I promise to bring back with me | E |
| What thou with transport wilt receive | F |
| The only proper gift for thee | E |
| Of which no mortal shall bereave | F |
| In later times thy mouldering walls | G |
| Until the last old turret falls | G |
| A crown a crown from Athens won | H |
| A crown no god can wear beside Latona s son | H |
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| There may be cities who refuse | I |
| To their own child the honours due | J |
| And look ungently on the Muse | I |
| But ever shall those cities rue | J |
| The dry unyielding niggard breast | K |
| Offering no nourishment no rest | K |
| To that young head which soon shall rise | L |
| Disdainfully in might and glory to the skies | L |
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| Sweetly where cavern d Dirce flows | M |
| Do white arm d maidens chaunt my lay | N |
| Flapping the while with laurel rose | M |
| The honey gathering tribes away | N |
| And sweetly sweetly Attick tongues | O |
| Lisp your Corinna s early songs | P |
| To her with feet more graceful come | Q |
| The verses that have dwelt in kindred breasts at home | R |
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| O let thy children lean aslant | K |
| Against the tender mother s knee | E |
| And gaze into her face and want | K |
| To know what magic there can be | E |
| In words that urge some eyes to dance | S |
| While others as in holy trance | S |
| Look up to heaven be such my praise | T |
| Why linger I must haste or lose the Delphick bays | T |
Walter Savage Landor
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