Sonnet For A Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDEDE| That nose is out of drawing With a gasp | A |
| She pants upon the passionate lips that ache | B |
| With the red drain of her own mouth and make | B |
| A monochord of colour Like an asp | A |
| One lithe lock wriggles in his rutilant grasp | A |
| Her bosom is an oven of myrrh to bake | B |
| Love's white warm shewbread to a browner cake | B |
| The lock his fingers clench has burst its hasp | A |
| The legs are absolutely abominable | C |
| Ah what keen overgust of wild eyed woes | D |
| Flags in that bosom flushes in that nose | D |
| Nay Death sets riddles for desire to spell | E |
| Responsive What red hem earth's passion sews | D |
| But may be ravenously unripped in hell | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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