Apologia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDDCD| If wrath embitter the sweet mouth of song | A |
| And make the sunlight fire before those eyes | B |
| That would drink draughts of peace from the unsoiled skies | B |
| The wrongdoing is not ours but ours the wrong | A |
| Who hear too loud on earth and see too long | A |
| The grief that dies not with the groan that dies | B |
| Till the strong bitterness of pity cries | B |
| Within us that our anger should be strong | A |
| For chill is known by heat and heat by chill | C |
| And the desire that hope makes love to still | C |
| By the fear flying beside it or above | D |
| A falcon fledged to follow a fledgeling dove | D |
| And by the fume and flame of hate of ill | C |
| The exuberant light and burning bloom of love | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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