Launch Of The Livadia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BC D AEEAAEEAFDDFFD GHHGGHHGAIAAIA JAAJJAAJKKBKBB

Mal soluta navis exit aliteA
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HorB
Rigged with curses darkC
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MiltonD
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Gold and fair marbles and again more goldA
And space of halls afloat that glance and gleamE
Like the green heights of sunset heaven or seemE
The golden steeps of sunrise red and coldA
On deserts where dark exile keeps the foldA
Fast of the flocks of torment where no beamE
Falls of kind light or comfort save in dreamE
These we far off behold not who beholdA
The cordage woven of curses and the decksF
With mortal hate and mortal peril pavenD
From stem to stern the lines of doom engravenD
That mark for sure inevitable wrecksF
Those sails predestinate though no storm vexF
To miss on earth and find in hell their havenD
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II-
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All curses be about her and all illG
Go with her heaven be dark above her wayH
The gulf beneath her glad and sure of preyH
And wheresoe'er her prow be pointed stillG
The winds of heaven have all one evil willG
Conspirant even as hearts of kings to slayH
With mouths of kings to lie and smile and prayH
And chiefliest his whose wintrier breath makes chillG
With more than winter's and more poisonous coldA
The horror of his kingdom toward the northI
The deserts of his kingdom toward the eastA
And though death hide not in her direful holdA
Be all stars adverse toward her that come forthI
Nightly by day all hours till all have ceasedA
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Till all have ceased for ever and the sumJ
Be summed of all the sumless curses toldA
Out on his head by all dark seasons rolledA
Over its cursed and crowned existence dumbJ
And blind and stark as though the snows made numbJ
All sense within it and all conscience coldA
That hangs round hearts of less imperial mouldA
Like a snake feeding till their doomsday comeJ
O heart fast bound of frozen poison beK
All nature's as all true men's hearts to theeK
A two edged sword of judgment hope be farB
And fear at hand for pilot overseaK
With death for compass and despair for starB
And the white foam a shroud for the White CzarB

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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