Eros Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC BAB ABAC D ABAC EAB ABAC D ABAC BAB ABAC| Eros from rest in isles far famed | A |
| With rising Anthesterion rose | B |
| And all Hellenic heights acclaimed | A |
| Eros | C |
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| The sea one pearl the shore one rose | B |
| All round him all the flower month flamed | A |
| And lightened laughing off repose | B |
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| Earth's heart sublime and unashamed | A |
| Knew even perchance as man's heart knows | B |
| The thirst of all men's nature named | A |
| Eros | C |
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| II | D |
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| Eros a fire of heart untamed | A |
| A light of spirit in sense that glows | B |
| Flamed heavenward still ere earth defamed | A |
| Eros | C |
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| Nor fear nor shame durst curb or close | E |
| His golden godhead marred and maimed | A |
| Fast round with bonds that burnt and froze | B |
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| Ere evil faith struck blind and lamed | A |
| Love pure as fire or flowers or snows | B |
| Earth hailed as blameless and unblamed | A |
| Eros | C |
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| III | D |
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| Eros with shafts by thousands aimed | A |
| At laughing lovers round in rows | B |
| Fades from their sight whose tongues proclaimed | A |
| Eros | C |
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| But higher than transient shapes or shows | B |
| The light of love in life inflamed | A |
| Springs toward no goal that these disclose | B |
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| Above those heavens which passion claimed | A |
| Shines veiled by change that ebbs and flows | B |
| The soul in all things born or framed | A |
| Eros | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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