Stage Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDEE FGBB| WHEN the game began between them for a jest | A |
| He played king and she played queen to match the best | A |
| Laughter soft as tears and tears that turned to laughter | B |
| These were things she sought for years and sorrowed after | B |
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| Pleasure with dry lips and pain that walks by night | C |
| All the sting and all the stain of long delight | C |
| These were things she knew not of that knew not of her | B |
| When she played at half a love with half a lover | B |
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| Time was chorus gave them cues to laugh or cry | D |
| They would kill befool amuse him let him die | D |
| Set him webs to weave to day and break to morrow | E |
| Till he died for good in play and rose in sorrow | E |
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| What the years mean how time dies and is not slain | F |
| How love grows and laughs and cries and wanes again | G |
| These were things she came to know and take their measure | B |
| When the play was played out so for one man s pleasure | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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