James Shirley: Xiv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CCDEDE| THE DUSK of day s decline was hard on dark | A |
| When evening trembled round thy glowworm lamp | B |
| That shone across her shades and dewy damp | B |
| A small clear beacon whose benignant spark | A |
| Was gracious yet for loiterers eyes to mark | A |
| Though changed the watchword of our English camp | B |
| Since the outposts rang round Marlowe s lion ramp | B |
| When thy steed s pace went ambling round Hyde Park | A |
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| And in the thickening twilight under thee | C |
| Walks Davenant pensive in the paths where he | C |
| The blithest throat that ever carolled love | D |
| In music made of morning s merriest heart | E |
| Glad Suckling stumbled from his seat above | D |
| And reeled on slippery roads of alien art | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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