The Conjunction Of Jupiter And Venus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNKOPQRS GTUVMVPVWVVXOVGYVV ZA2VVB2VVC2 D2E2F2G2VVWH2I2 J2VXK2D2L2M2VN2V VO2P2VVQ2VI2DR2S2VT2 VQ2VVKU2VV2W2O2VG2F2 VI would not always reason The straight path | A |
Wearies us with its never varying lines | B |
And we grow melancholy I would make | C |
Reason my guide but she should sometimes sit | D |
Patiently by the way side while I traced | E |
The mazes of the pleasant wilderness | F |
Around me She should be my counsellor | G |
But not my tyrant For the spirit needs | H |
Impulses from a deeper source than hers | I |
And there are motions in the mind of man | J |
That she must look upon with awe I bow | K |
Reverently to her dictates but not less | L |
Hold to the fair illusions of old time | M |
Illusions that shed brightness over life | N |
And glory over nature Look even now | K |
Where two bright planets in the twilight meet | O |
Upon the saffron heaven the imperial star | P |
Of Jove and she that from her radiant urn | Q |
Pours forth the light of love Let me believe | R |
Awhile that they are met for ends of good | S |
Amid the evening glory to confer | G |
Of men and their affairs and to shed down | T |
Kind influence Lo they brighten as we gaze | U |
And shake out softer fires The great earth feels | V |
The gladness and the quiet of the time | M |
Meekly the mighty river that infolds | V |
This mighty city smooths his front and far | P |
Glitters and burns even to the rocky base | V |
Of the dark heights that bound him to the west | W |
And a deep murmur from the many streets | V |
Rises like a thanksgiving Put we hence | V |
Dark and sad thoughts awhile there's time for them | X |
Hereafter on the morrow we will meet | O |
With melancholy looks to tell our griefs | V |
And make each other wretched this calm hour | G |
This balmy blessed evening we will give | Y |
To cheerful hopes and dreams of happy days | V |
Born of the meeting of those glorious stars | V |
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Enough of drought has parched the year and scared | Z |
The land with dread of famine Autumn yet | A2 |
Shall make men glad with unexpected fruits | V |
The dog star shall shine harmless genial days | V |
Shall softly glide away into the keen | B2 |
And wholesome cold of winter he that fears | V |
The pestilence shall gaze on those pure beams | V |
And breathe with confidence the quiet air | C2 |
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Emblems of power and beauty well may they | D2 |
Shine brightest on our borders and withdraw | E2 |
Towards the great Pacific marking out | F2 |
The path of empire Thus in our own land | G2 |
Ere long the better Genius of our race | V |
Having encompassed earth and tamed its tribes | V |
Shall sit him down beneath the farthest west | W |
By the shore of that calm ocean and look back | H2 |
On realms made happy | I2 |
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Light the nuptial torch | J2 |
And say the glad yet solemn rite that knits | V |
The youth and maiden Happy days to them | X |
That wed this evening a long life of love | K2 |
And blooming sons and daughters Happy they | D2 |
Born at this hour for they shall see an age | L2 |
Whiter and holier than the past and go | M2 |
Late to their graves Men shall wear softer hearts | V |
And shudder at the butcheries of war | N2 |
As now at other murders | V |
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Hapless Greece | V |
Enough of blood has wet thy rocks and stained | O2 |
Thy rivers deep enough thy chains have worn | P2 |
Their links into thy flesh the sacrifice | V |
Of thy pure maidens and thy innocent babes | V |
And reverend priests has expiated all | Q2 |
Thy crimes of old In yonder mingling lights | V |
There is an omen of good days for thee | I2 |
Thou shalt arise from midst the dust and sit | D |
Again among the nations Thine own arm | R2 |
Shall yet redeem thee Not in wars like thine | S2 |
The world takes part Be it a strife of kings | V |
Despot with despot battling for a throne | T2 |
And Europe shall be stirred throughout her realms | V |
Nations shall put on harness and shall fall | Q2 |
Upon each other and in all their bounds | V |
The wailing of the childless shall not cease | V |
Thine is a war for liberty and thou | K |
Must fight it single handed The old world | U2 |
Looks coldly on the murderers of thy race | V |
And leaves thee to the struggle and the new | V2 |
I fear me thou couldst tell a shameful tale | W2 |
Of fraud and lust of gain thy treasury drained | O2 |
And Missolonghi fallen Yet thy wrongs | V |
Shall put new strength into thy heart and hand | G2 |
And God and thy good sword shall yet work out | F2 |
For thee a terrible deliverance | V |
William Cullen Bryant
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