George Chapman:xi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDCDD| HIGH priest of Homer not elect in vain | A |
| Deep trumpets blow before thee shawms behind | B |
| Mix music with the rolling wheels that wind | B |
| Slow through the labouring triumph of thy train | A |
| Fierce history molten in thy forging brain | A |
| Takes form and fire and fashion from thy mind | B |
| Tormented and transmuted out of kind | B |
| But howsoe er thou shift thy strenuous strain | A |
| Like Tailor smooth like Fisher swollen and now | C |
| Grim Yarrington scarce bloodier marked than thou | C |
| Then bluff as Mayne s or broad mouthed Barry s glee | D |
| Proud still with hoar predominance of brow | C |
| And beard like foam swept off the broad blown sea | D |
| Where er thou go men s reverence goes with thee | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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