Mentana: Second Anniversary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDDDDDDDEEFGGH BBBBBBBBIBIBIB| Est ce qu'il n'est pas temps que la foudre se prouve | A |
| Cieux profonds en broyant ce chien fils de la louve | A |
| La L gende des Si cles Ratbert | B |
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| By the dead body of Hope the spotless lamb | C |
| Thou threwest into the high priest's slaughtering room | D |
| And by the child Despair born red therefrom | D |
| As thank the secret sire picked out to cram | D |
| With spurious spawn thy misconceiving dam | D |
| Thou like a worm from a town's common tomb | D |
| Didst creep from forth the kennel of her womb | D |
| Born to break down with catapult and ram | D |
| Man's builded towers of promise and with breath | E |
| And tongue to track and hunt his hopes to death | E |
| O by that sweet dead body abused and slain | F |
| And by that child mismothered dog by all | G |
| Thy curses thou hast cursed mankind withal | G |
| With what curse shall man curse thee back again | H |
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| By the brute soul that made man's soul its food | B |
| By time grown poisonous with it by the hate | B |
| And horror of all souls not miscreate | B |
| By the hour of power that evil hath on good | B |
| And by the incognizable fatherhood | B |
| Which made a whorish womb the shameful gate | B |
| That opening let out loose to fawn on fate | B |
| A hound half blooded ravening for man's blood | B |
| What prayer but this for thee should any say | I |
| Thou dog of hell but this that Shakespeare said | B |
| By night deflowered and desecrated day | I |
| That fall as one curse on one cursed head | B |
| Cancel his bond of life dear God I pray | I |
| That I may live to say The dog is dead | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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