Satia Te Sanguine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ AKAK LMLM NONO PQPR STST BUBU VWVW GXGX MMMM YJYJ AMAM GMGM ZA2ZA2| IF YOU loved me ever so little | A |
| I could bear the bonds that gall | B |
| I could dream the bonds were brittle | A |
| You do not love me at all | B |
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| O beautiful lips O bosom | C |
| More white than the moon s and warm | D |
| A sterile a ruinous blossom | C |
| Is blown your way in a storm | D |
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| As the lost white feverish limbs | E |
| Of the Lesbian Sappho adrift | F |
| In foam where the sea weed swims | E |
| Swam loose for the streams to lift | F |
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| My heart swims blind in a sea | G |
| That stuns me swims to and fro | H |
| And gathers to windward and lee | G |
| Lamentation and mourning and woe | H |
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| A broken an emptied boat | I |
| Sea saps it winds blow apart | J |
| Sick and adrift and afloat | I |
| The barren waif of a heart | J |
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| Where when the gods would be cruel | A |
| Do they go for a torture where | K |
| Plant thorns set pain like a jewel | A |
| Ah not in the flesh not there | K |
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| The racks of earth and the rods | L |
| Are weak as foam on the sands | M |
| In the heart is the prey for gods | L |
| Who crucify hearts not hands | M |
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| Mere pangs corrode and consume | N |
| Dead when life dies in the brain | O |
| In the infinite spirit is room | N |
| For the pulse of an infinite pain | O |
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| I wish you were dead my dear | P |
| I would give you had I to give | Q |
| Some death too bitter to fear | P |
| It is better to die than live | R |
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| I wish you were stricken of thunder | S |
| And burnt with a bright flame through | T |
| Consumed and cloven in sunder | S |
| I dead at your feet like you | T |
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| If I could but know after all | B |
| I might cease to hunger and ache | U |
| Though your heart were ever so small | B |
| If it were not a stone or a snake | U |
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| You are crueller you that we love | V |
| Than hatred hunger or death | W |
| You have eyes and breasts like a dove | V |
| And you kill men s hearts with a breath | W |
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| As plague in a poisonous city | G |
| Insults and exults on her dead | X |
| So you when pallid for pity | G |
| Comes love and fawns to be fed | X |
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| As a tame beast writhes and wheedles | M |
| He fawns to be fed with wiles | M |
| You carve him a cross of needles | M |
| And whet them sharp as your smiles | M |
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| He is patient of thorn and whip | Y |
| He is dumb under axe or dart | J |
| You suck with a sleepy red lip | Y |
| The wet red wounds in his heart | J |
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| You thrill as his pulses dwindle | A |
| You brighten and warm as he bleeds | M |
| With insatiable eyes that kindle | A |
| And insatiable mouth that feeds | M |
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| Your hands nailed love to the tree | G |
| You stript him scourged him with rods | M |
| And drowned him deep in the sea | G |
| That hides the dead and their gods | M |
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| And for all this die will he not | Z |
| There is no man sees him but I | A2 |
| You came and went and forgot | Z |
| I hope he will some day die | A2 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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