Locusta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDE| Come close and see her and hearken This is she | A |
| Stop the ways fast against the stench that nips | B |
| Your nostril as it nears her Lo the lips | B |
| That between prayer and prayer find time to be | A |
| Poisonous the hands holding a cup and key | A |
| Key of deep hell cup whence blood reeks and drips | B |
| The loose lewd limbs the reeling hingeless hips | B |
| The scurf that is not skin but leprosy | A |
| This haggard harlot grey of face and green | C |
| With the old hand's cunning mixes her new priest | D |
| The cup she mixed her Nero stirred and spiced | E |
| She lisps of Mary and Jesus Nazarene | C |
| With a tongue tuned and head that bends to the east | D |
| Praying There are who say she is bride of Christ | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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