Love And Scorn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBDDEDEE AFGGFFGGFHHIJJI AEKKEEKKELLMLMM| I | A |
| Love loyallest and lordliest born of things | B |
| Immortal that shouldst be though all else end | C |
| In plighted hearts of fearless friend with friend | C |
| Whose hand may curb or clip thy plume plucked wings | B |
| Not grief's nor time's though these be lords and kings | B |
| Crowned and their yoke bid vassal passions bend | C |
| They may not pierce the spirit of sense or blend | C |
| Quick poison with the soul's live watersprings | B |
| The true clear heart whose core is manful trust | D |
| Fears not that very death may turn to dust | D |
| Love lit therein as toward a brother born | E |
| If one touch make not all its fine gold rust | D |
| If one breath blight not all its glad ripe corn | E |
| And all its fire be turned to fire of scorn | E |
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| II | A |
| Scorn only scorn begot of bitter proof | F |
| By keen experience of a trustless heart | G |
| Bears burning in her new born hand the dart | G |
| Wherewith love dies heart stricken and the roof | F |
| Falls of his palace and the storied woof | F |
| Long woven of many a year with life's whole art | G |
| Is rent like any rotten weed apart | G |
| And hardly with reluctant eyes aloof | F |
| Cold memory guards one relic scarce exempt | H |
| Yet from the fierce corrosion of contempt | H |
| And hardly saved by pity Woe are we | I |
| That once we loved and love not but we know | J |
| The ghost of love surviving yet in show | J |
| Where scorn has passed is vain as grief must be | I |
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| III | A |
| O sacred just inevitable scorn | E |
| Strong child of righteous judgment whom with grief | K |
| The rent heart bears and wins not yet relief | K |
| Seeing of its pain so dire a portent born | E |
| Must thou not spare one sheaf of all the corn | E |
| One doit of all the treasure not one sheaf | K |
| Not one poor doit of all not one dead leaf | K |
| Of all that fell and left behind a thorn | E |
| Is man so strong that one should scorn another | L |
| Is any as God not made of mortal mother | L |
| That love should turn in him to gall and flame | M |
| Nay but the true is not the false heart's brother | L |
| Love cannot love disloyalty the name | M |
| That else it wears is love no more but shame | M |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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