First And Last Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB ABABAB CDCDCD EFEGEF HIHIJI KLMLKL| Upon the borderlands of being | A |
| Where life draws hardly breath | B |
| Between the lights and shadows fleeing | A |
| Fast as a word one saith | B |
| Two flowers rejoice our eyesight seeing | A |
| The dawns of birth and death | B |
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| Behind the babe his dawn is lying | A |
| Half risen with notes of mirth | B |
| From all the winds about it flying | A |
| Through new born heaven and earth | B |
| Before bright age his day for dying | A |
| Dawns equal eyed with birth | B |
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| Equal the dews of even and dawn | C |
| Equal the sun's eye seen | D |
| A hand's breadth risen and half withdrawn | C |
| But no bright hour between | D |
| Brings aught so bright by stream or lawn | C |
| To noonday growths of green | D |
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| Which flower of life may smell the sweeter | E |
| To love's insensual sense | F |
| Which fragrance move with offering meeter | E |
| His soothed omnipotence | G |
| Being chosen as fairer or as fleeter | E |
| Borne hither or borne hence | F |
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| Love's foiled omniscience knows not this | H |
| Were more than all he knows | I |
| With all his lore of bale and bliss | H |
| The choice of rose and rose | I |
| One red as lips that touch with his | J |
| One white as moonlit snows | I |
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| No hope is half so sweet and good | K |
| No dream of saint or sage | L |
| So fair as these are no dark mood | M |
| But these might best assuage | L |
| The sweet red rose of babyhood | K |
| The white sweet rose of age | L |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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