Messalina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFFFE GHGHIIJH KLKLMMML| The gloss is fading from your hair | A |
| The glamour from your brow | B |
| The light your eyes were wont to wear | A |
| Attracts no gazer now | B |
| O'er sunny forehead smiling lips | C |
| And cheeks of rosy roundness slips | C |
| A cruel premature eclipse | C |
| Time should not yet allow | B |
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| I think of one whose homestead lies | D |
| A stone's throw from your own | E |
| Who spite of sorrow in her eyes | D |
| Hath but more comely grown | E |
| Who robbed while scarce a four year's bride | F |
| Of him her husband joy and pride | F |
| Whilst yours still labours at your side | F |
| Is lovely though alone | E |
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| For know 'tis not from loss of state | G |
| Nor e'en from loved one's death | H |
| Nor any stroke of Time or Fate | G |
| That true grace suffereth | H |
| That virtue hath a secret charm | I |
| Age cannot wither sorrow harm | I |
| Which keepeth even beauty warm | J |
| After surcease of breath | H |
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| Know furthermore that wants debased | K |
| Void restlessness in crime | L |
| Have almost wholly now defaced | K |
| What had been spared by Time | L |
| That soul shut in while sense ajar | M |
| Joys which not mending nature mar | M |
| Entered and left you what you are | M |
| A ruin ere your prime | L |
Alfred Austin
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