Five Criticisms - Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DBDB EFGH EFIH| On a certain goddess acclaimed as new but known in Babylon | A |
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| I saw the assembled artists of our day | B |
| Waiting for light for music and for song | C |
| A woman stood before them fresh as May | B |
| And beautiful but in that modish throng | C |
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| None heeded her They said In our first youth | D |
| Surely long since your hair was touched with grey | B |
| I do not change she answered I am Truth | D |
| Old and banal they sneered and turned away | B |
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| Then came a formless thing with breasts dyed scarlet | E |
| The roses in her hair were green and blue | F |
| I am new she said I change and | G |
| Death knows why | H |
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| Then with the eyes and gesture of a harlot | E |
| She led them all forth whinneying New how new | F |
| Tell us your name She answered The | I |
| New Lie | H |
Alfred Noyes
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