Madona Mia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDDC EEEFGGGF EEEHIIIH JJJKLLLK MNMOCCCO PPPQRRRQ SSSTUUUT IIIDVCCD KKKSWWWS ABAXWWWX| UNDER green apple boughs | A |
| That never a storm will rouse | B |
| My lady hath her house | B |
| Between two bowers | C |
| In either of the twain | D |
| Red roses full of rain | D |
| She hath for bondwomen | D |
| All kind of flowers | C |
| - | |
| She hath no handmaid fair | E |
| To draw her curled gold hair | E |
| Through rings of gold that bear | E |
| Her whole hair s weight | F |
| She hath no maids to stand | G |
| Gold clothed on either hand | G |
| In all the great green land | G |
| None is so great | F |
| - | |
| She hath no more to wear | E |
| But one white hood of vair | E |
| Drawn over eyes and hair | E |
| Wrought with strange gold | H |
| Made for some great queen s head | I |
| Some fair great queen since dead | I |
| And one strait gown of red | I |
| Against the cold | H |
| - | |
| Beneath her eyelids deep | J |
| Love lying seems asleep | J |
| Love swift to wake to weep | J |
| To laugh to gaze | K |
| Her breasts are like white birds | L |
| And all her gracious words | L |
| As water grass to herds | L |
| In the June days | K |
| - | |
| To her all dews that fall | M |
| And rains are musical | N |
| Her flowers are fed from all | M |
| Her joy from these | O |
| In the deep feathered firs | C |
| Their gift of joy is hers | C |
| In the least breath that stirs | C |
| Across the trees | O |
| - | |
| She grows with greenest leaves | P |
| Ripens with reddest sheaves | P |
| Forgets remembers grieves | P |
| And is not sad | Q |
| The quiet lands and skies | R |
| Leave light upon her eyes | R |
| None knows her weak or wise | R |
| Or tired or glad | Q |
| - | |
| None knows none understands | S |
| What flowers are like her hands | S |
| Though you should search all lands | S |
| Wherein time grows | T |
| What snows are like her feet | U |
| Though his eyes burn with heat | U |
| Through gazing on my sweet | U |
| Yet no man knows | T |
| - | |
| Only this thing is said | I |
| That white and gold and red | I |
| God s three chief words man s bread | I |
| And oil and wine | D |
| Were given her for dowers | V |
| And kingdom of all hours | C |
| And grace of goodly flowers | C |
| And various vine | D |
| - | |
| This is my lady s praise | K |
| God after many days | K |
| Wrought her in unknown ways | K |
| In sunset lands | S |
| This was my lady s birth | W |
| God gave her might and mirth | W |
| And laid his whole sweet earth | W |
| Between her hands | S |
| - | |
| Under deep apple boughs | A |
| My lady hath her house | B |
| She wears upon her brows | A |
| The flower thereof | X |
| All saying but what God saith | W |
| To her is as vain breath | W |
| She is more strong than death | W |
| Being strong as love | X |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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