The Aquittal Of Phryne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBABCBCCB| When Athens challenged Phryne to confess | A |
| Eleusis' self sufficed not to appal | B |
| Her impious tread and throned within their Hall | B |
| The awful judges frowned on her distress | A |
| Slowly her lovely limbs she did undress | A |
| Swathe upon swathe fold after fold let fall | B |
| Until she stood absolved before them all | B |
| Clad in her clear convincing nakedness | A |
| So when the slaves of custom would control | B |
| Your range of feeling and your realm of thought | C |
| And close you half the world who claim the whole | B |
| Show them your inmost self keep back not aught | C |
| By your mind's beauty be their bias bought | C |
| And sway by bare simplicity of soul | B |
Alfred Austin
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