In A Rosary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDCCDEFEEFGHGGH IJIIJKDKKDELEELEGEEG| Through the low grey archway children's feet that pass | A |
| Quicken glad to find the sweetest haunt of all | B |
| Brightest wildflowers gleaming deep in lustiest grass | A |
| Glorious weeds that glisten through the green sea's glass | A |
| Match not now this marvel born to fade and fall | B |
| Roses like a rainbow wrought of roses rise | C |
| Right and left and forward shining toward the sun | D |
| Nay the rainbow lit of sunshine droops and dies | C |
| Ere we dream it hallows earth and seas and skies | C |
| Ere delight may dream it lives its life is done | D |
| Round the border hemmed with high deep hedges round | E |
| Go the children peering over or between | F |
| Where the dense bright oval wall of box inwound | E |
| Reared about the roses fast within it bound | E |
| Gives them grace to glance at glories else unseen | F |
| Flower outlightening flower and tree outflowering tree | G |
| Feed and fill the sense and spirit full with joy | H |
| Nought awhile they know of outer earth and sea | G |
| Here enough of joy it is to breathe and be | G |
| Here the sense of life is one for girl and boy | H |
| Heaven above them bright as children's eyes or dreams | I |
| Earth about them sweet as glad soft sleep can show | J |
| Earth and sky and sea a world that scarcely seems | I |
| Even in children's eyes less fair than life that gleams | I |
| Through the sleep that none but sinless eyes may know | J |
| Near beneath and near above the terraced ways | K |
| Wind or stretch and bask or blink against the sun | D |
| Hidden here from sight on soft or stormy days | K |
| Lies and laughs with love toward heaven at silent gaze | K |
| All the radiant rosary all its flowers made one | D |
| All the multitude of roses towering round | E |
| Dawn and noon and night behold as one full flower | L |
| Fain of heaven and loved of heaven curbed and crowned | E |
| Raised and reared to make this plot of earthly ground | E |
| Heavenly could but heaven endure on earth an hour | L |
| Swept away made nothing now for ever dead | E |
| Still the rosary lives and shines on memory free | G |
| Now from fear of death or change as childhood fled | E |
| Years on years before its last live leaves were shed | E |
| None may mar it now as none may stain the sea | G |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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