John Marston: Xii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBABBCDDCTHE 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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