The Augurs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAACCADDADAA| Lay the corpse out on the altar bid the elect | A |
| Slaves clear the ways of service spiritual | B |
| Sweep clean the stalled soul's serviceable stall | C |
| Ere the chief priest's dismantling hands detect | A |
| The ulcerous flesh of faith all scaled and specked | A |
| Beneath the bandages that hid it all | C |
| And with sharp edgetools oecumenical | C |
| The leprous carcases of creeds dissect | A |
| As on the night ere Brutus grew divine | D |
| The sick souled augurs found their ox or swine | D |
| Heartless so now too by their after art | A |
| In the same Rome at an uncleaner shrine | D |
| Limb from rank limb and putrid part from part | A |
| They carve the corpse a beast without a heart | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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