A Cameo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBCDEADEA| THERE WAS a graven image of Desire | A |
| Painted with red blood on a ground of gold | B |
| Passing between the young men and the old | B |
| And by him Pain whose body shone like fire | A |
| And Pleasure with gaunt hands that grasped their hire | A |
| Of his left wrist with fingers clenched and cold | B |
| The insatiable Satiety kept hold | B |
| Walking with feet unshod that pashed the mire | C |
| The senses and the sorrows and the sins | D |
| And the strange loves that suck the breasts of Hate | E |
| Till lips and teeth bite in their sharp indenture | A |
| Followed like beasts with flap of wings and fins | D |
| Death stood aloof behind a gaping grate | E |
| Upon whose lock was written Peradventure | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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