Prologue To The Two Noble Kinsmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPQQ| Sweet as the dewfall splendid as the south | A |
| Love touched with speech Boccaccio's golden mouth | A |
| Joy thrilled and filled its utterance full with song | B |
| And sorrow smiled on doom that wrought no wrong | B |
| A starrier lustre of lordlier music rose | C |
| Beyond the sundering bar of seas and snows | C |
| When Chaucer's thought took life and light from his | D |
| And England's crown was one with Italy's | E |
| Loftiest and last by grace of Shakespeare's word | F |
| Arose above their quiring spheres a third | F |
| Arose and flashed and faltered song's deep sky | G |
| Saw Shakespeare pass in light in music die | G |
| No light like his no music man might give | H |
| To bid the darkened sphere left songless live | I |
| Soft though the sound of Fletcher's rose and rang | J |
| And lit the lunar darkness as it sang | J |
| Below the singing stars the cloud crossed moon | K |
| Gave back the sunken sun's a trembling tune | K |
| As when at highest high tide the sovereign sea | L |
| Pauses and patience doubts if passion be | L |
| Till gradual ripples ebb recede recoil | M |
| Shine smile and whisper laughing as they toil | M |
| Stark silence fell at turn of fate's high tide | N |
| Upon his broken song when Shakespeare died | N |
| Till Fletcher's light sweet speech took heart to say | O |
| What evening should it speak for morning may | O |
| And fourfold now the gradual glory shines | P |
| That shows once more in heaven two twinborn signs | P |
| Two brethren stars whose light no cloud may fret | Q |
| No soul whereon their story dawns forget | Q |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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