Prologue To A Very Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLBBMMNN| Swift music made of passion's changeful power | A |
| Sweet as the change that leaves the world in flower | A |
| When spring laughs winter down to deathward rang | B |
| From grave and gracious lips that smiled and sang | B |
| When Massinger too wise for kings to hear | C |
| And learn of him truth wisdom faith or fear | D |
| Gave all his gentler heart to love's light lore | E |
| That grief might brood and scorn breed wrath no more | E |
| Soft bright fierce tender fitful truthful sweet | F |
| A shrine where faith and change might smile and meet | F |
| A soul whose music could but shift its tune | G |
| As when the lustrous year turns May to June | G |
| And spring subsides in summer so makes good | H |
| Its perfect claim to very womanhood | H |
| The heart that hate of wrong made fire the hand | I |
| Whose touch was fire as keen as shame's own brand | I |
| When fraud and treason swift to smile and sting | J |
| Crowned and discrowned a tyrant knave or king | J |
| False each and ravenous as the fitful sea | K |
| Grew gently glad as love that fear sets free | K |
| Like eddying ripples that the wind restrains | L |
| The bright words whisper music ere it wanes | L |
| Ere fades the sovereign sound of song that rang | B |
| As though the sun to match the sea's tune sang | B |
| When noon from dawn took life and light and time | M |
| Shone seeing how Shakespeare made the world sublime | M |
| Ere sinks the wind whose breath was heaven's and day's | N |
| The sunset's witness gives the sundawn praise | N |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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