On Lamb-s Specimens Of Dramatic Poets: Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDDEFEF A GEEGGEEGECFECF| I | A |
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| IF ALL the flowers of all the fields on earth | B |
| By wonder working summer were made one | C |
| Its fragrance were not sweeter in the sun | C |
| Its treasure house of leaves were not more worth | B |
| Than those wherefrom thy light of musing mirth | B |
| Shone till each leaf whereon thy pen would run | C |
| Breathed life and all its breath was benison | C |
| Beloved beyond all names of English birth | B |
| More dear than mightier memories gentlest name | D |
| That ever clothed itself with flower sweet fame | D |
| Or linked itself with loftiest names of old | E |
| By right and might of loving I that am | F |
| Less than the least of those within thy fold | E |
| Give only thanks for them to thee Charles Lamb | F |
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| II | A |
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| So many a year had borne its own bright bees | G |
| And slain them since thy honey bees were hived | E |
| John Day in cells of flower sweet verse contrived | E |
| So well with craft of moulding melodies | G |
| Thy soul perchance in amaranth fields at ease | G |
| Thought not to hear the sound on earth revived | E |
| Of summer music from the spring derived | E |
| When thy song sucked the flower of flowering trees | G |
| But thine was not the chance of every day | E |
| Time after many a darkling hour grew sunny | C |
| And light between the clouds ere sunset swam | F |
| Laughing and kissed their darkness all away | E |
| When touched and tasted and approved thy honey | C |
| Took subtler sweetness from the lips of Lamb | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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