Prologue To The Revenger's Tragedy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPQQRR| Fire and behind the breathless flight of fire | A |
| Thunder that quickens fear and quells desire | A |
| Make bright and loud the terror of the night | B |
| Wherein the soul sees only wrath for light | B |
| Wrath winged by love and sheathed by grief in steel | C |
| Sets on the front of crime death's withering seal | C |
| The heaving horror of the storms of sin | D |
| Brings forth in fear the lightning hid therein | D |
| And flashes back to darkness truth found pure | E |
| And perfect asks not heaven if shame endure | E |
| What life and death were his whose raging song | F |
| Bore heaven such witness of the wild world's wrong | F |
| What hand was this that grasped such thunder none | G |
| Knows night and storm seclude him from the sun | G |
| By daytime none discerns the fire of Mars | H |
| Deep darkness bares to sight the sterner stars | H |
| The lights whose dawn seems doomsday None may tell | I |
| Whence rose a world so lit from heaven and hell | I |
| Life wasting love hate born of raging lust | J |
| Fierce retribution fed with death's own dust | J |
| And sorrow's pampering poison cross and meet | K |
| And wind the world in passion's winding sheet | K |
| So when dark faith in faith's dark ages heard | L |
| Falsehood and drank the poison of the Word | L |
| Two shades misshapen came to monstrous birth | M |
| A father fiend in heaven a thrall on earth | M |
| Man meanest born of beasts that press the sod | N |
| And die the vilest of his creatures God | N |
| A judge unjust a slave that praised his name | O |
| Made life and death one fire of sin and shame | O |
| And thence reverberate even on Shakespeare's age | P |
| A light like darkness crossed his sunbright stage | P |
| Music sublime as storm or sorrow sang | Q |
| Before it tempest like a harpstring rang | Q |
| The fiery shadow of a name unknown | R |
| Rose and in song's high heaven abides alone | R |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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