John Marston: Xii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBABBCDDC| THE BITTERNESS of death and bitterer scorn | A |
| Breathes from the broad leafed aloe plant whence thou | B |
| Wast fain to gather for thy bended brow | B |
| A chaplet by no gentler forehead worn | A |
| Grief deep as hell wrath hardly to be borne | A |
| Ploughed up thy soul till round the furrowing plough | B |
| The strange black soil foamed as a black beaked prow | B |
| Bids night black waves foam where its track has torn | A |
| Too faint the phrase for thee that only saith | B |
| Scorn bitterer than the bitterness of death | B |
| Pervades the sullen splendour of thy soul | C |
| Where hate and pain make war on force and fraud | D |
| And all the strengths of tyrants whence unflawed | D |
| It keeps this noble heart of hatred whole | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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