Non Dolet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDCEE| It does not hurt She looked along the knife | A |
| Smiling and watched the thick drops mix and run | B |
| Down the sheer blade not that which had been done | B |
| Could hurt the sweet sense of the Roman wife | A |
| But that which was to do yet ere the strife | A |
| Could end for each for ever and the sun | B |
| Nor was the palm yet nor was peace yet won | B |
| While pain had power upon her husband's life | A |
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| It does not hurt Italia Thou art more | C |
| Than bride to bridegroom how shalt thou not take | D |
| The gift love's blood has reddened for thy sake | D |
| Was not thy lifeblood given for us before | C |
| And if love's heartblood can avail thy need | E |
| And thou not die how should it hurt indeed | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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