Chorus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDDC DEDEFFDE GHGHGGGH GDGDIJGD DKDLGMDL ENEEEEEE ODODDDOD

i from Atalanta in Calydon iA
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When the hounds of spring are on winter's tracesB
The mother of months in meadow or plainC
Fills the shadows and windy placesB
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rainC
And the brown bright nigthingale amorousD
Is half assuaged for ItylusD
For the Thracian ships and the foreign facesD
The tongueless vigil and all the painC
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Come with bows bent and emptying of quiversD
Maiden most perfect lady of lightE
With a noise of winds and many riversD
With a clamour of waters and with mightE
Bind on thy sandals O thou most fleetF
Over the splendour and speed of thy feetF
For the faint east quickens the wan west shiversD
Round the feet of the day and the feet of the nightE
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Where shall we find her how shall we sing to herG
Fold our hands round her knees and clingH
O that man's heart were as fire and could spring to herG
Fire or the strength of the streams that springH
For the stars and the winds are unto herG
As raiment as songs of the harp playerG
For the risen stars and the fallen cling to herG
And the southwest wind and the west wind singH
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For winter's rains and ruins are overG
And all the season of snows and sinsD
The days dividing lover and loverG
The light that loses the night that winsD
And time remembered is grief forgottenI
And frosts are slain and flowers begottenJ
And in green underwood and coverG
Blossom by blossom the spring beginsD
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The full streams feed on flower of rushesD
Ripe grasses trammel a travelling footK
The faint fresh flame of the young year flushesD
From leaf to flower and flower to fruitL
And fruit and leaf are as gold and fireG
And the oat is heard above the lyreM
And the hoofed heel of a satyr crushesD
The chestnut husk at the chestnut rootL
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And Pan by noon and Bacchus by nightE
Fleeter of foot than the fleet foot kidN
Follows with dancing and fills with delightE
The Maenad and the BassaridE
And soft as lips that laugh and hideE
The laughing leaves of the trees divideE
And screen from seeing and leave in sightE
The god pursuing the maiden hidE
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The ivy falls with the Bacchanal's hairO
Over her eyebrows hiding her eyesD
The wild vine slipping down leaves bareO
Her bright breast shortening with sighsD
The wild vine slips with the weight of its leavesD
But the berried ivy catches and cleavesD
To the limbs that glitter the feet that scareO
The wolf that follows the fawn that fliesD

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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