Quia Nominor Leo: Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBDDEFFE A GHHIIHHIJJKLLK| I | A |
| WHAT part is left thee lion Ravenous beast | B |
| Which hadst the world for pasture and for scope | C |
| And compass of thine homicidal hope | C |
| The kingdom of the spirit of man the feast | B |
| Of souls subdued from west to sunless east | B |
| From blackening north to bloodred south aslope | C |
| All servile earth for footcloth of the pope | C |
| And heaven for chancel ceiling of the priest | B |
| Thou that hadst earth by right of rack and rod | D |
| Thou that hadst Rome because thy name was God | D |
| And by thy creed s gift heaven wherein to dwell | E |
| Heaven laughs with all his light and might above | F |
| That earth has cast thee out of faith and love | F |
| Thy part is but the hollow dream of hell | E |
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| II | A |
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| The light of life has faded from thy cause | G |
| High priest of heaven and hell and purgatory | H |
| Thy lips are loud with strains of oldworld story | H |
| But the red prey was rent out of thy paws | I |
| Long since and they that dying brake down thy laws | I |
| Have with the fires of death enkindled glory | H |
| Put out the flame that faltered on thy hoary | H |
| High altars waning with the world s applause | I |
| This Italy was Dante s Bruno died | J |
| Here Campanella too sublime for pride | J |
| Endured thy God s worst here and hence went home | K |
| And what art thou that time s full tide should shrink | L |
| For thy sake downward What art thou to think | L |
| Thy God shall give thee back for birthright Rome | K |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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