Rococo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADAD AEAEAFAF GHGHADAD IJIJAFAF IIIIADAD AKAKAFAF ILILADAD IMIMAFAF GNGNADAD IOIOAFAF| TAKE HANDS and part with laughter | A |
| Touch lips and part with tears | B |
| Once more and no more after | A |
| Whatever comes with years | C |
| We twain shall not remeasure | A |
| The ways that left us twain | D |
| Nor crush the lees of pleasure | A |
| From sanguine grapes of pain | D |
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| We twain once well in sunder | A |
| What will the mad gods do | E |
| For hate with me I wonder | A |
| Or what for love with you | E |
| Forget them till November | A |
| And dream there s April yet | F |
| Forget that I remember | A |
| And dream that I forget | F |
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| Time found our tired love sleeping | G |
| And kissed away his breath | H |
| But what should we do weeping | G |
| Though light love sleep to death | H |
| We have drained his lips at leisure | A |
| Till there s not left to drain | D |
| A single sob of pleasure | A |
| A single pulse of pain | D |
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| Dream that the lips once breathless | I |
| Might quicken if they would | J |
| Say that the soul is deathless | I |
| Dream that the gods are good | J |
| Say March may wed September | A |
| And time divorce regret | F |
| But not that you remember | A |
| And not that I forget | F |
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| We have heard from hidden places | I |
| What love scarce lives and hears | I |
| We have seen on fervent faces | I |
| The pallor of strange tears | I |
| We have trod the wine vat s treasure | A |
| Whence ripe to steam and stain | D |
| Foams round the feet of pleasure | A |
| The blood red must of pain | D |
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| Remembrance may recover | A |
| And time bring back to time | K |
| The name of your first lover | A |
| The ring of my first rhyme | K |
| But rose leaves of December | A |
| The frosts of June shall fret | F |
| The day that you remember | A |
| The day that I forget | F |
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| The snake that hides and hisses | I |
| In heaven we twain have known | L |
| The grief of cruel kisses | I |
| The joy whose mouth makes moan | L |
| The pulse s pause and measure | A |
| Where in one furtive vein | D |
| Throbs through the heart of pleasure | A |
| The purpler blood of pain | D |
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| We have done with tears and treasons | I |
| And love for treason s sake | M |
| Room for the swift new seasons | I |
| The years that burn and break | M |
| Dismantle and dismember | A |
| Men s days and dreams Juliette | F |
| For love may not remember | A |
| But time will not forget | F |
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| Life treads down love in flying | G |
| Time withers him at root | N |
| Bring all dead things and dying | G |
| Reaped sheaf and ruined fruit | N |
| Where crushed by three days pressure | A |
| Our three days love lies slain | D |
| And earlier leaf of pleasure | A |
| And latter flower of pain | D |
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| Breathe close upon the ashes | I |
| It may be flame will leap | O |
| Unclose the soft close lashes | I |
| Lift up the lids and weep | O |
| Light love s extinguished ember | A |
| Let one tear leave it wet | F |
| For one that you remember | A |
| And ten that you forget | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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