Christopher Marlowe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBADEFDGG| Crowned girdled garbed and shod with light and fire | A |
| Son first born of the morning sovereign star | B |
| Soul nearest ours of all that wert most far | B |
| Most far off in the abysm of time thy lyre | C |
| Hung highest above the dawn enkindled quire | C |
| Where all ye sang together all that are | B |
| And all the starry songs behind thy car | B |
| Rang sequence all our souls acclaim thee sire | A |
| If all the pens that ever poets held | D |
| Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts | E |
| And as with rush of hurtling chariots | F |
| The flight of all their spirits were impelled | D |
| Toward one great end thy glory nay not then | G |
| Not yet might'st thou be praised enough of men | G |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Katherine stott: Swinburne rates Marlowe's poetry; "sublime" I in turn rate Swinburne's homage to Marlowe (in this poem) as equally sublime. Marlowe is attributed god-like status, as "Son first-born of the morning, sovereign star" Contempoary readers may find this eulogising rather mawkish, but I believe Swinburne, genuinely felt Marlowe's genius being above any other poet, meant that his; "soul nearest ours of all" was in fact, unearthly.
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