Prologue To Old Fortunatus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOLLEE| The golden bells of fairyland that ring | A |
| Perpetual chime for childhood's flower sweet spring | A |
| Sang soft memorial music in his ear | B |
| Whose answering music shines about us here | B |
| Soft laughter as of light that stirs the sea | C |
| With darkling sense of dawn ere dawn may be | C |
| Kind sorrow pity touched with gentler scorn | D |
| Keen wit whose shafts were sunshafts of the morn | D |
| Love winged with fancy fancy thrilled with love | E |
| An eagle's aim and ardour in a dove | E |
| A man's delight and passion in a child | F |
| Inform it as when first they wept and smiled | F |
| Life soiled and rent and ringed about with pain | G |
| Whose touch lent action less of spur than chain | G |
| Left half the happiness his birth designed | H |
| And half the power unquenched in heart and mind | H |
| Comrade and comforter sublime in shame | I |
| A poor man bound in prison whence he came | I |
| Poor and took up the burden of his life | J |
| Smiling and strong to strive with sorrow and strife | J |
| He spake in England's ear the poor man's word | K |
| Manful and mournful deathless and unheard | K |
| His kind great heart was fire and love's own fire | L |
| Compassion strong as flesh may feel desire | L |
| To enkindle pity and mercy toward a soul | M |
| Sunk down in shame too deep for shame's control | M |
| His kind keen eye was light to lighten hope | N |
| Where no man else might see life's darkness ope | N |
| And pity's touch bring forth from evil good | O |
| Sweet as forgiveness strong as fatherhood | O |
| Names higher than his outshine it and outsoar | L |
| But none save one should memory cherish more | L |
| Praise and thanksgiving crown the names above | E |
| But him we give the gift he gave us love | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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