A Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBDEFFEGG| Faith is the spirit that makes man's body and blood | A |
| Sacred to crown when life and death have ceased | B |
| His heavenward head for high fame's holy feast | B |
| But as one swordstroke swift as wizard's rod | C |
| Made Caesar carrion and made Brutus God | C |
| Faith false or true born patriot or born priest | B |
| Smites into semblance or of man or beast | B |
| The soul that feeds on clean or unclean food | D |
| Lo here the faith that lives on its own light | E |
| Visible music and lo there the foul | F |
| Shape without shape the harpy throat and howl | F |
| Sword of the spirit of man arise and smite | E |
| And sheer through throat and claw and maw and tongue | G |
| Kill the beast faith that lives on its own dung | G |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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