A Ballad Of Bath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABBBBBBABAABBBBBB ABAABBBBBBBBBBB| Like a queen enchanted who may not laugh or weep | A |
| Glad at heart and guarded from change and care like ours | B |
| Girt about with beauty by days and nights that creep | A |
| Soft as breathless ripples that softly shoreward sweep | A |
| Lies the lovely city whose grace no grief deflowers | B |
| Age and grey forgetfulness time that shifts and veers | B |
| Touch not thee our fairest whose charm no rival nears | B |
| Hailed as England's Florence of one whose praise gives grace | B |
| Landor once thy lover a name that love reveres | B |
| Dawn and noon and sunset are one before thy face | B |
| Dawn whereof we know not and noon whose fruit we reap | A |
| Garnered up in record of years that fell like flowers | B |
| Sunset liker sunrise along the shining steep | A |
| Whence thy fair face lightens and where thy soft springs leap | A |
| Crown at once and gird thee with grace of guardian powers | B |
| Loved of men beloved of us souls that fame inspheres | B |
| All thine air hath music for him who dreams and hears | B |
| Voices mixed of multitudes feet of friends that pace | B |
| Witness why for ever if heaven's face clouds or clears | B |
| Dawn and noon and sunset are one before thy face | B |
| Peace hath here found harbourage mild as very sleep | A |
| Not the hills and waters the fields and wildwood bowers | B |
| Smile or speak more tenderly clothed with peace more deep | A |
| Here than memory whispers of days our memories keep | A |
| Fast with love and laughter and dreams of withered hours | B |
| Bright were these as blossom of old and thought endears | B |
| Still the fair soft phantoms that pass with smiles or tears | B |
| Sweet as roseleaves hoarded and dried wherein we trace | B |
| Still the soul and spirit of sense that lives and cheers | B |
| Dawn and noon and sunset are one before thy face | B |
| City lulled asleep by the chime of passing years | B |
| Sweeter smiles thy rest than the radiance round thy peers | B |
| Only love and lovely remembrance here have place | B |
| Time on thee lies lighter than music on men's ears | B |
| Dawn and noon and sunset are one before thy face | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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