Rondel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABB CCDCBB EEBEFB| THESE many years since we began to be | A |
| What have the gods done with us what with me | A |
| What with my love they have shown me fates and fears | B |
| Harsh springs and fountains bitterer than the sea | A |
| Grief a fixed star and joy a vane that veers | B |
| These many years | B |
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| With her my love with her have they done well | C |
| But who shall answer for her who shall tell | C |
| Sweet things or sad such things as no man hears | D |
| May no tears fall if no tears ever fell | C |
| From eyes more dear to me than starriest spheres | B |
| These many years | B |
| - | |
| But if tears ever touched for any grief | E |
| Those eyelids folded like a white rose leaf | E |
| Deep double shells wherethrough the eye flower peers | B |
| Let them weep once more only sweet and brief | E |
| Brief tears and bright for one who gave her tears | F |
| These many years | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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