Launch Of The Livadia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC D AEEAAEEAFDDFFD GHHGGHHGAIAAIA JAAJJAAJKKBKBBMal soluta navis exit alite | A |
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Hor | B |
Rigged with curses dark | C |
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Milton | D |
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Gold and fair marbles and again more gold | A |
And space of halls afloat that glance and gleam | E |
Like the green heights of sunset heaven or seem | E |
The golden steeps of sunrise red and cold | A |
On deserts where dark exile keeps the fold | A |
Fast of the flocks of torment where no beam | E |
Falls of kind light or comfort save in dream | E |
These we far off behold not who behold | A |
The cordage woven of curses and the decks | F |
With mortal hate and mortal peril paven | D |
From stem to stern the lines of doom engraven | D |
That mark for sure inevitable wrecks | F |
Those sails predestinate though no storm vex | F |
To miss on earth and find in hell their haven | D |
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II | - |
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All curses be about her and all ill | G |
Go with her heaven be dark above her way | H |
The gulf beneath her glad and sure of prey | H |
And wheresoe'er her prow be pointed still | G |
The winds of heaven have all one evil will | G |
Conspirant even as hearts of kings to slay | H |
With mouths of kings to lie and smile and pray | H |
And chiefliest his whose wintrier breath makes chill | G |
With more than winter's and more poisonous cold | A |
The horror of his kingdom toward the north | I |
The deserts of his kingdom toward the east | A |
And though death hide not in her direful hold | A |
Be all stars adverse toward her that come forth | I |
Nightly by day all hours till all have ceased | A |
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III | - |
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Till all have ceased for ever and the sum | J |
Be summed of all the sumless curses told | A |
Out on his head by all dark seasons rolled | A |
Over its cursed and crowned existence dumb | J |
And blind and stark as though the snows made numb | J |
All sense within it and all conscience cold | A |
That hangs round hearts of less imperial mould | A |
Like a snake feeding till their doomsday come | J |
O heart fast bound of frozen poison be | K |
All nature's as all true men's hearts to thee | K |
A two edged sword of judgment hope be far | B |
And fear at hand for pilot oversea | K |
With death for compass and despair for star | B |
And the white foam a shroud for the White Czar | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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