Chorus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDDC DEDEFFDE GHGHGGGH GDGDIJGD DKDLGMDL ENEEEEEE ODODDDODi from Atalanta in Calydon i | A |
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When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces | B |
The mother of months in meadow or plain | C |
Fills the shadows and windy places | B |
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain | C |
And the brown bright nigthingale amorous | D |
Is half assuaged for Itylus | D |
For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces | D |
The tongueless vigil and all the pain | C |
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Come with bows bent and emptying of quivers | D |
Maiden most perfect lady of light | E |
With a noise of winds and many rivers | D |
With a clamour of waters and with might | E |
Bind on thy sandals O thou most fleet | F |
Over the splendour and speed of thy feet | F |
For the faint east quickens the wan west shivers | D |
Round the feet of the day and the feet of the night | E |
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Where shall we find her how shall we sing to her | G |
Fold our hands round her knees and cling | H |
O that man's heart were as fire and could spring to her | G |
Fire or the strength of the streams that spring | H |
For the stars and the winds are unto her | G |
As raiment as songs of the harp player | G |
For the risen stars and the fallen cling to her | G |
And the southwest wind and the west wind sing | H |
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For winter's rains and ruins are over | G |
And all the season of snows and sins | D |
The days dividing lover and lover | G |
The light that loses the night that wins | D |
And time remembered is grief forgotten | I |
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten | J |
And in green underwood and cover | G |
Blossom by blossom the spring begins | D |
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The full streams feed on flower of rushes | D |
Ripe grasses trammel a travelling foot | K |
The faint fresh flame of the young year flushes | D |
From leaf to flower and flower to fruit | L |
And fruit and leaf are as gold and fire | G |
And the oat is heard above the lyre | M |
And the hoofed heel of a satyr crushes | D |
The chestnut husk at the chestnut root | L |
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And Pan by noon and Bacchus by night | E |
Fleeter of foot than the fleet foot kid | N |
Follows with dancing and fills with delight | E |
The Maenad and the Bassarid | E |
And soft as lips that laugh and hide | E |
The laughing leaves of the trees divide | E |
And screen from seeing and leave in sight | E |
The god pursuing the maiden hid | E |
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The ivy falls with the Bacchanal's hair | O |
Over her eyebrows hiding her eyes | D |
The wild vine slipping down leaves bare | O |
Her bright breast shortening with sighs | D |
The wild vine slips with the weight of its leaves | D |
But the berried ivy catches and cleaves | D |
To the limbs that glitter the feet that scare | O |
The wolf that follows the fawn that flies | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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