A Double Ballad Of August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCABAABCBCABBB BCBCBBBBBCBCBBBBBCBC BBBBBCBC| All Afric winged with death and fire | A |
| Pants in our pleasant English air | B |
| Each blade of grass is tense as wire | A |
| And all the wood's loose trembling hair | B |
| Stark in the broad and breathless glare | B |
| Of hours whose touch wastes herb and tree | C |
| This bright sharp death shines everywhere | B |
| Life yearns for solace toward the sea | C |
| Earth seems a corpse upon the pyre | A |
| The sun a scourge for slaves to bear | B |
| All power to fear all keen desire | A |
| Lies dead as dreams of days that were | A |
| Before the new born world lay bare | B |
| In heaven's wide eye whereunder we | C |
| Lie breathless till the season spare | B |
| Life yearns for solace toward the sea | C |
| Fierce hours with ravening fangs that tire | A |
| On spirit and sense divide and share | B |
| The throbs of thoughts that scarce respire | B |
| The throes of dreams that scarce forbear | B |
| One mute immitigable prayer | B |
| For cold perpetual sleep to be | C |
| Shed snowlike on the sense of care | B |
| Life yearns for solace toward the sea | C |
| The dust of ways where men suspire | B |
| Seems even the dust of death's dim lair | B |
| But though the feverish days be dire | B |
| The sea wind rears and cheers its fair | B |
| Blithe broods of babes that here and there | B |
| Make the sands laugh and glow for glee | C |
| With gladder flowers than gardens wear | B |
| Life yearns for solace toward the sea | C |
| The music dies not off the lyre | B |
| That lets no soul alive despair | B |
| Sleep strikes not dumb the breathless choir | B |
| Of waves whose note bids sorrow spare | B |
| As glad they sound as fast they fare | B |
| As when fate's word first set them free | C |
| And gave them light and night to wear | B |
| Life yearns for solace toward the sea | C |
| For there though night and day conspire | B |
| To compass round with toil and snare | B |
| And changeless whirl of change whose gyre | B |
| Draws all things deathwards unaware | B |
| The spirit of life they scourge and scare | B |
| Wild waves that follow on waves that flee | C |
| Laugh knowing that yet though earth despair | B |
| Life yearns for solace toward the sea | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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