A Clasp Of Hands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BAB ABAB CACA ACA CACA DADA ADA DADA| SOFT small and sweet as sunniest flowers | A |
| That bask in heavenly heat | B |
| When bud by bud breaks breathes and cowers | A |
| Soft small and sweet | B |
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| A babe's hands open as to greet | B |
| The tender touch of ours | A |
| And mock with motion faint and fleet | B |
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| The minutes of the new strange hours | A |
| That earth not heaven must mete | B |
| Buds fragrant still from heaven's own bowers | A |
| Soft small and sweet | B |
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| A velvet vice with springs of steel | C |
| That fasten in a trice | A |
| And clench the fingers fast that feel | C |
| A velvet vice | A |
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| What man would risk the danger twice | A |
| Nor quake from head to heel | C |
| Whom would not one such test suffice | A |
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| Well may we tremble as we kneel | C |
| In sight of Paradise | A |
| If both a babe's closed fists conceal | C |
| A velvet vice | A |
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| Two flower soft fists of conquering clutch | D |
| Two creased and dimpled wrists | A |
| That match if mottled overmuch | D |
| Two flower soft fists | A |
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| What heart of man dare hold the lists | A |
| Against such odds and such | D |
| Sweet vantage as no strength resists | A |
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| Our strength is all a broken crutch | D |
| Our eyes are dim with mists | A |
| Our hearts are prisoners as we touch | D |
| Two flower soft fists | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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