Laodamia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCD EEF GGH EEE IIE FFJ EEJ BBE KKG EEL MMN OPQ RRS TTE EEH UUE VVW FFE EEE FFE XXY WWE ZZE A2A2P JJW B2B2Y JELEE| Vows have I made by fruitless hope inspired | A |
| Of night my slaughtered Lord have I required | A |
| Restore him to my sight great Jove restore | B |
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| With faith the Suppliant heavenward lifts her hands | C |
| Her countenance brightens and her eye expands | C |
| As she expects the issue in repose | D |
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| What doth she look on whom doth she behold | E |
| His vital presence his corporeal mould | E |
| And a God leads him wing egrave d Mercury | F |
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| That calms all fear Such grace hath crowned thy prayer | G |
| Thy husband walks the paths of upper air | G |
| Accept the gift behold him face to face | H |
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| Again that consummation she essayed | E |
| As often as that eager grasp was made | E |
| And re assume his place before her sight | E |
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| Confirm I pray the vision with thy voice | I |
| Speak and the floor thou tread'st on will rejoice | I |
| This precious boon and blest a sad abode | E |
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| His gifts imperfect Spectre though I be | F |
| But in reward of thy fidelity | F |
| For fearless virtue bringeth boundless gain | J |
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| That the first Greek who touched the Trojan strand | E |
| A generous cause a victim did demand | E |
| A self devoted chief by Hector slain | J |
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| Thy matchless courage I bewail no more | B |
| By doubt propelled thee to the fatal shore | B |
| A nobler counsellor than my poor heart | E |
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| Wert kind as resolute and good as brave | K |
| Thou should'st elude the malice of the grave | K |
| As when their breath enriched Thessalian air | G |
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| Come blooming Hero place thee by my side | E |
| To me this day a second time thy bride | E |
| Upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue | L |
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| Nor should the change be mourned even if the joys | M |
| And surely as they vanish Earth destroys | M |
| Calm pleasures there abide majestic pains | N |
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| Rebellious passion for the Gods approve | O |
| A fervent not ungovernable love | P |
| When I depart for brief is my sojourn | Q |
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| Wrest from the guardian monster of the tomb | R |
| Given back to dwell on earth in vernal bloom | R |
| And son stood a youth 'mid youthful peers | S |
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| Yet further may relent for mightier far | T |
| Of magic potent over sun and star | T |
| And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast | E |
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| She looked upon him and was calmed and cheered | E |
| In his deportment shape and mien appeared | E |
| Brought from a pensive though a happy place | H |
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| In worlds whose course is equable and pure | U |
| The past unsighed for and the future sure | U |
| Revived with finer harmony pursued | E |
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| In happier beauty more pellucid streams | V |
| And fields invested with purpureal gleams | V |
| Earth knows is all unworthy to survey | W |
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| That privilege by virtue Ill said he | F |
| Who from ignoble games and revelry | F |
| While tears were thy best pastime day and night | E |
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| Each hero following his peculiar bent | E |
| By martial sports or seated in the tent | E |
| What time the fleet at Aulis lay enchained | E |
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| The oracle upon the silent sea | F |
| That of a thousand vessels mine should be | F |
| Mine the first blood that tinged the Trojan sand | E |
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| When of thy loss I thought belov egrave d Wife | X |
| And on the joys we shared in mortal life | X |
| My new planned cities and unfinished towers | Y |
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| 'Behold they tremble haughty their array | W |
| In soul I swept the indignity away | W |
| In act embodied my deliverance wrought | E |
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| In reason in self government too slow | Z |
| Our blest re union in the shades below | Z |
| Be thy affections raised and solemnised | E |
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| Seeking a higher object Love was given | A2 |
| For this the passion to excess was driven | A2 |
| The fetters of a dream opposed to love | P |
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| Round the dear Shade she would have clung 'tis vain | J |
| And him no mortal effort can detain | J |
| He through the portal takes his silent way | W |
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| She perished and as for a wilful crime | B2 |
| Was doomed to wear out her appointed time | B2 |
| Of blissful quiet 'mid unfading bowers | Y |
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| And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown | J |
| As fondly he believes Upon the side | E |
| A knot of spiry trees for ages grew | L |
| And ever when such stature they had gained | E |
| The trees' tall summits withered at the sight | E |
William Wordsworth
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