A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD CBC BCBC ABEBE EBE BEBE AFBFB BFB FBFB| I | A |
| DEATH if thou wilt fain would I plead with thee | B |
| Canst thou not spare of all our hopes have built | C |
| One shelter where our spirits fain would be | B |
| Death if thou wit | D |
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| No dome with suns and dews impearled and gilt | C |
| Imperial but some roof of wildwood tree | B |
| Too mean for sceptre's heft or swordblade's hilt | C |
| - | |
| Some low sweet roof where love might live set free | B |
| From change and fear and dreams of grief or guilt | C |
| Canst thou not leave life even thus much to see | B |
| Death if thou wilt | C |
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| II | A |
| Man what art thou to speak and plead with me | B |
| What knowest thou of my workings where and how | E |
| What things I fashion Nay behold and see | B |
| Man what art thou | E |
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| Thy fruits of life and blossoms of thy bough | E |
| What are they but my seedlings Earth and sea | B |
| Bear nought but when I breathe on it must bow | E |
| - | |
| Bow thou too down before me though thou be | B |
| Great all the pride shall fade from off thy brow | E |
| When Time and strong Oblivion ask of thee | B |
| Man what art thou | E |
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| III | A |
| Death if thou be or be not as was said | F |
| Immortal if thou make us nought or we | B |
| Survive thy power is made but of our dread | F |
| Death if thou be | B |
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| Thy might is made out of our fear of thee | B |
| Who fears thee not hath plucked from off thine head | F |
| The crown of cloud that darkens earth and sea | B |
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| Earth sea and sky as rain or vapour shed | F |
| Shall vanish all the shows of them shall flee | B |
| Then shall we know full surely quick or dead | F |
| Death if thou be | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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