Dedication To Joseph Mazzini Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DDDDDD EFGEFG HIJHIJ JFKJFK HILHIL JIMJIM| Take since you bade it should bear | A |
| These of the seed of your sowing | B |
| Blossom or berry or weed | C |
| Sweet though they be not or fair | A |
| That the dew of your word kept growing | B |
| Sweet at least was the seed | C |
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| Men bring you love offerings of tears | D |
| And sorrow the kiss that assuages | D |
| And slaves the hate offering of wrongs | D |
| And time the thanksgiving of years | D |
| And years the thanksgiving of ages | D |
| I bring you my handful of songs | D |
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| If a perfume be left if a bloom | E |
| Let it live till Italia be risen | F |
| To be strewn in the dust of her car | G |
| When her voice shall awake from the tomb | E |
| England and France from her prison | F |
| Sisters a star by a star | G |
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| I bring you the sword of a song | H |
| The sword of my spirit's desire | I |
| Feeble but laid at your feet | J |
| That which was weak shall be strong | H |
| That which was cold shall take fire | I |
| That which was bitter be sweet | J |
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| It was wrought not with hands to smite | J |
| Nor hewn after swordsmiths' fashion | F |
| Nor tempered on anvil of steel | K |
| But with visions and dreams of the night | J |
| But with hope and the patience of passion | F |
| And the signet of love for a seal | K |
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| Be it witness till one more strong | H |
| Till a loftier lyre till a rarer | I |
| Lute praise her better than I | L |
| Be it witness before you my song | H |
| That I knew her the world's banner bearer | I |
| Who shall cry the republican cry | L |
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| Yea even she as at first | J |
| Yea she alone and none other | I |
| Shall cast down shall build up shall bring home | M |
| Slake earth's hunger and thirst | J |
| Lighten and lead as a mother | I |
| First name of the world's names Rome | M |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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