On An Old Roundel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BAB ABAB C ADAD DAE ADAD| Death from thy rigour a voice appealed | A |
| And men still hear what the sweet cry saith | B |
| Crying aloud in thine ears fast sealed | A |
| Death | B |
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| As a voice in a vision that vanisheth | B |
| Through the grave's gate barred and the portal steeled | A |
| The sound of the wail of it travelleth | B |
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| Wailing aloud from a heart unhealed | A |
| It woke response of melodious breath | B |
| From lips now too by thy kiss congealed | A |
| Death | B |
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| II | C |
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| Ages ago from the lips of a sad glad poet | A |
| Whose soul was a wild dove lost in the whirling snow | D |
| The soft keen plaint of his pain took voice to show it | A |
| Ages ago | D |
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| So clear so deep the divine drear accents flow | D |
| No soul that listens may choose but thrill to know it | A |
| Pierced and wrung by the passionate music's throe | E |
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| For us there murmurs a nearer voice below it | A |
| Known once of ears that never again shall know | D |
| Now mute as the mouth which felt death's wave o'erflow it | A |
| Ages ago | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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