Colonus' Praise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEFFE GHIIJKKL MNOOCPPP QQKKPRSP| From Oedipus at Colonus | A |
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| Chorus Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise | B |
| The wine dark of the wood's intricacies | C |
| The nightingale that deafens daylight there | D |
| If daylight ever visit where | D |
| Unvisited by tempest or by sun | E |
| Immortal ladies tread the ground | F |
| Dizzy with harmonious sound | F |
| Semele's lad a gay companion | E |
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| And yonder in the gymnasts' garden thrives | G |
| The self sown self begotten shape that gives | H |
| Athenian intellect its mastery | I |
| Even the grey leaved olive tree | I |
| Miracle bred out of the living stone | J |
| Nor accident of peace nor war | K |
| Shall wither that old marvel for | K |
| The great grey eyed Athene stares thereon | L |
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| Who comes into this country and has come | M |
| Where golden crocus and narcissus bloom | N |
| Where the Great Mother mourning for her daughter | O |
| And beauty drunken by the water | O |
| Glittering among grey leaved olive trees | C |
| Has plucked a flower and sung her loss | P |
| Who finds abounding Cephisus | P |
| Has found the loveliest spectacle there is | P |
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| because this country has a pious mind | Q |
| And so remembers that when all mankind | Q |
| But trod the road or splashed about the shore | K |
| Poseidon gave it bit and oar | K |
| Every Colonus lad or lass discourses | P |
| Of that oar and of that bit | R |
| Summer and winter day and night | S |
| Of horses and horses of the sea white horses | P |
William Butler Yeats
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