Ode To Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCEEFFGGHIJJK KLLMM LNONO PQPQ RSRS BLBL LTLT SLLUULLLLLLSSLLSSVVL LWWQQMM| Thou to whom the world unknown | A |
| With all its shadowy shapes is shown | A |
| Who seest appalled the unreal scene | B |
| While fancy lifts the veil between | B |
| Ah fear ah frantic fear | C |
| I see I see thee near | C |
| I know thy hurried step thy haggard eye | D |
| Like thee I start like thee disordered fly | D |
| For lo what monsters in thy train appear | C |
| Danger whose limbs of giant mould | E |
| What mortal eye can fixed behold | E |
| Who stalks his round an hideous form | F |
| Howling amidst the midnight storm | F |
| Or throws him on the ridgy steep | G |
| Of some loose hanging rock to sleep | G |
| And with him thousand phantoms joined | H |
| Who prompt to deeds accursed the mind | I |
| And those the fiends who near allied | J |
| O'er nature's wounds the wrecks preside | J |
| Whilst vengeance in the lurid air | K |
| Lifts her red arm exposed and bare | K |
| On whom that ravening brood of fate | L |
| Who lap the blood of sorrow wait | L |
| Who fear this ghastly train can see | M |
| And look not madly wild like thee | M |
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| Epode | L |
| In earliest Greece to thee with partial choice | N |
| The grief full muse addrest her infant tongue | O |
| The maids and matrons on her awful voice | N |
| Silent and pale in wild amazement hung | O |
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| Yet he the bard who first invoked thy name | P |
| Disdained in Marathon its power to feel | Q |
| For not alone he nursed the poet's flame | P |
| But reached from virtue's hand the patriot's steel | Q |
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| But who is he whom later garlands grace | R |
| Who left awhile o'er Hybla's dews to rove | S |
| With trembling eyes thy dreary steps to trace | R |
| Where thou and furies shared the baleful grove | S |
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| Wrapt in thy cloudy veil the incestuous queen | B |
| Sighed the sad call her son and husband heard | L |
| When once alone it broke the silent scene | B |
| And he the wretch of Thebes no more appeared | L |
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| O fear I know thee by my throbbing heart | L |
| Thy withering power inspired each mournful line | T |
| Though gentle pity claim her mingled part | L |
| Yet all the thunders of the scene are thine | T |
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| Anistrophe | S |
| Thou who such weary lengths hast past | L |
| Where wilt thou rest mad nymph at last | L |
| Say wilt thou shroud in haunted cell | U |
| Where gloomy rape and murder dwell | U |
| Or in some hollowed seat | L |
| 'Gainst which the big waves beat | L |
| Hear drowning seamen's cries in tempests brought | L |
| Dark power with shuddering meek submitted thought | L |
| Be mine to read the visions old | L |
| Which thy awakening bards have told | L |
| And lest thou meet my blasted view | S |
| Hold each strange tale devoutly true | S |
| Ne'er be I found by thee o'erawed | L |
| In that thrice hallowed eve abroad | L |
| When ghosts as cottage maids believe | S |
| Their pebbled beds permitted leave | S |
| And goblins haunt from fire or fen | V |
| Or mine or flood the walks of men | V |
| O thou whose spirit most possest | L |
| The sacred seat of Shakespeare's breast | L |
| By all that from thy prophet broke | W |
| In thy divine emotions spoke | W |
| Hither again thy fury deal | Q |
| Teach me but once more like him to feel | Q |
| His cypress wreath my meed decree | M |
| And I O fear will dwell with thee | M |
William Collins
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