Erotion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK LLMMNNOOEEDDPPQQRRDD NNSS| Sweet for a little even to fear and sweet | A |
| O love to lay down fear at love's fair feet | A |
| Shall not some fiery memory of his breath | B |
| Lie sweet on lips that touch the lips of death | B |
| Yet leave me not yet if thou wilt be free | C |
| Love me no more but love my love of thee | C |
| Love where thou wilt and live thy life and I | D |
| One thing I can and one love cannot die | D |
| Pass from me yet thine arms thine eyes thine hair | E |
| Feed my desire and deaden my despair | E |
| Yet once more ere time change us ere my cheek | F |
| Whiten ere hope be dumb or sorrow speak | F |
| Yet once more ere thou hate me one full kiss | G |
| Keep other hours for others save me this | G |
| Yea and I will not if it please thee weep | H |
| Lest thou be sad I will but sigh and sleep | H |
| Sweet does death hurt thou canst not do me wrong | I |
| I shall not lack thee as I loved thee long | I |
| Hast thou not given me above all that live | J |
| Joy and a little sorrow shalt not give | K |
| What even though fairer fingers of strange girls | L |
| Pass nestling through thy beautiful boy's curls | L |
| As mine did or those curled lithe lips of thine | M |
| Meet theirs as these all theirs come after mine | M |
| And though I were not though I be not best | N |
| I have loved and love thee more than all the rest | N |
| O love O lover loose or hold me fast | O |
| I had thee first whoever have thee last | O |
| Fairer or not what need I know what care | E |
| To thy fair bud my blossom once seemed fair | E |
| Why am I fair at all before thee why | D |
| At all desired seeing thou art fair not I | D |
| I shall be glad of thee O fairest head | P |
| Alive alone without thee with thee dead | P |
| I shall remember while the light lives yet | Q |
| And in the night time I shall not forget | Q |
| Though as thou wilt thou leave me ere life leave | R |
| I will not for thy love I will not grieve | R |
| Not as they use who love not more than I | D |
| Who love not as I love thee though I die | D |
| And though thy lips once mine be oftener prest | N |
| To many another brow and balmier breast | N |
| And sweeter arms or sweeter to thy mind | S |
| Lull thee or lure more fond thou wilt not find | S |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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