The Ballad Of Melicertes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDDEDEBCBCCDDEDE BCBCCDDEDEDDEDE| In Memory of Theodore de Banville | A |
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| Death a light outshining life bids heaven resume | B |
| Star by star the souls whose light made earth divine | C |
| Death a night outshining day sees burn and bloom | B |
| Flower by flower and sun by sun the fames that shine | C |
| Deathless higher than life beheld their sovereign sign | C |
| Dead Simonides of Ceos late restored | D |
| Given again of God again by man deplored | D |
| Shone but yestereve a glory frail as breath | E |
| Frail But fame's breath quickens kindles keeps in ward | D |
| Life so sweet as this that dies and casts off death | E |
| Mother's love and rapture of the sea whose womb | B |
| Breeds eternal life of joy that stings like brine | C |
| Pride of song and joy to dare the singer's doom | B |
| Sorrow soft as sleep and laughter bright as wine | C |
| Flushed and filled with fragrant fire his lyric line | C |
| As the sea shell utters like a stricken chord | D |
| Music uttering all the sea's within it stored | D |
| Poet well beloved whose praise our sorrow saith | E |
| So thy songs retain thy soul and so record | D |
| Life so sweet as this that dies and casts off death | E |
| Side by side we mourned at Gautier's golden tomb | B |
| Here in spirit now I stand and mourn at thine | C |
| Yet no breath of death strikes thence no shadow of gloom | B |
| Only light more bright than gold of the inmost mine | C |
| Only steam of incense warm from love's own shrine | C |
| Not the darkling stream the sundering Stygian ford | D |
| Not the hour that smites and severs as a sword | D |
| Not the night subduing light that perisheth | E |
| Smite subdue divide from us by doom abhorred | D |
| Life so sweet as this that dies and casts off death | E |
| Prince of song more sweet than honey lyric lord | D |
| Not thy France here only mourns a light adored | D |
| One whose love lit fame the world inheriteth | E |
| Strangers too now brethren hail with heart's accord | D |
| Life so sweet as this that dies and casts off death | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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