A Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KEKEKLKLMKMKBabe if rhyme be none | A |
For that sweet small word | B |
Babe the sweetest one | A |
Ever heard | B |
Right it is and meet | C |
Rhyme should keep not true | D |
Time with such a sweet | C |
Thing as you | D |
Meet it is that rhyme | E |
Should not gain such grace | F |
What is April's prime | E |
To your face | F |
What to yours is May's | G |
Rosiest smile what sound | H |
Like your laughter sways | G |
All hearts round | H |
None can tell in metre | I |
Fit for ears on earth | J |
What sweet star grew sweeter | I |
At your birth | J |
Wisdom doubts what may be | K |
Hope with smile sublime | E |
Trusts but neither baby | K |
Knows the rhyme | E |
Wisdom lies down lonely | K |
Hope keeps watch from far | L |
None but one seer only | K |
Sees the star | L |
Love alone with yearning | M |
Heart for astrolabe | K |
Takes the star's height burning | M |
O'er the babe | K |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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