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Ode To Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCEEFFGGHIJJK KLLMM LNONO PQPQ RSRS BLBL LTLT SLLUULLLLLLSSLLSSVVL LWWQQMM

Thou to whom the world unknownA
With all its shadowy shapes is shownA
Who seest appalled the unreal sceneB
While fancy lifts the veil betweenB
Ah fear ah frantic fearC
I see I see thee nearC
I know thy hurried step thy haggard eyeD
Like thee I start like thee disordered flyD
For lo what monsters in thy train appearC
Danger whose limbs of giant mouldE
What mortal eye can fixed beholdE
Who stalks his round an hideous formF
Howling amidst the midnight stormF
Or throws him on the ridgy steepG
Of some loose hanging rock to sleepG
And with him thousand phantoms joinedH
Who prompt to deeds accursed the mindI
And those the fiends who near alliedJ
O'er nature's wounds the wrecks presideJ
Whilst vengeance in the lurid airK
Lifts her red arm exposed and bareK
On whom that ravening brood of fateL
Who lap the blood of sorrow waitL
Who fear this ghastly train can seeM
And look not madly wild like theeM
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EpodeL
In earliest Greece to thee with partial choiceN
The grief full muse addrest her infant tongueO
The maids and matrons on her awful voiceN
Silent and pale in wild amazement hungO
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Yet he the bard who first invoked thy nameP
Disdained in Marathon its power to feelQ
For not alone he nursed the poet's flameP
But reached from virtue's hand the patriot's steelQ
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But who is he whom later garlands graceR
Who left awhile o'er Hybla's dews to roveS
With trembling eyes thy dreary steps to traceR
Where thou and furies shared the baleful groveS
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Wrapt in thy cloudy veil the incestuous queenB
Sighed the sad call her son and husband heardL
When once alone it broke the silent sceneB
And he the wretch of Thebes no more appearedL
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O fear I know thee by my throbbing heartL
Thy withering power inspired each mournful lineT
Though gentle pity claim her mingled partL
Yet all the thunders of the scene are thineT
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AnistropheS
Thou who such weary lengths hast pastL
Where wilt thou rest mad nymph at lastL
Say wilt thou shroud in haunted cellU
Where gloomy rape and murder dwellU
Or in some hollowed seatL
'Gainst which the big waves beatL
Hear drowning seamen's cries in tempests broughtL
Dark power with shuddering meek submitted thoughtL
Be mine to read the visions oldL
Which thy awakening bards have toldL
And lest thou meet my blasted viewS
Hold each strange tale devoutly trueS
Ne'er be I found by thee o'erawedL
In that thrice hallowed eve abroadL
When ghosts as cottage maids believeS
Their pebbled beds permitted leaveS
And goblins haunt from fire or fenV
Or mine or flood the walks of menV
O thou whose spirit most possestL
The sacred seat of Shakespeare's breastL
By all that from thy prophet brokeW
In thy divine emotions spokeW
Hither again thy fury dealQ
Teach me but once more like him to feelQ
His cypress wreath my meed decreeM
And I O fear will dwell with theeM

William Collins



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