Before Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEFDGG FHIFJJ KLMKNO PJQPRR STGSUU| A MONTH or twain to live on honeycomb | A |
| Is pleasant but one tires of scented time | B |
| Cold sweet recurrence of accepted rhyme | B |
| And that strong purple under juice and foam | A |
| Where the wine s heart has burst | C |
| Nor feel the latter kisses like the first | C |
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| Once yet this poor one time I will not pray | D |
| Even to change the bitterness of it | E |
| The bitter taste ensuing on the sweet | F |
| To make your tears fall where your soft hair lay | D |
| All blurred and heavy in some perfumed wise | G |
| Over my face and eyes | G |
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| And yet who knows what end the scyth d wheat | F |
| Makes of its foolish poppies mouths of red | H |
| These were not sown these are not harvested | I |
| They grow a month and are cast under feet | F |
| And none has care thereof | J |
| As none has care of a divided love | J |
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| I know each shadow of your lips by rote | K |
| Each change of love in eyelids and eyebrows | L |
| The fashion of fair temples tremulous | M |
| With tender blood and colour of your throat | K |
| I know not how love is gone out of this | N |
| Seeing that all was his | O |
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| Love s likeness there endures upon all these | P |
| But out of these one shall not gather love | J |
| Day hath not strength nor the night shade enough | Q |
| To make love whole and fill his lips with ease | P |
| As some bee builded cell | R |
| Feels at filled lips the heavy honey swell | R |
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| I know not how this last month leaves your hair | S |
| Less full of purple colour and hid spice | T |
| And that luxurious trouble of closed eyes | G |
| Is mixed with meaner shadow and waste care | S |
| And love kissed out by pleasure seems not yet | U |
| Worth patience to regret | U |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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