The Moderates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDAADDA| Virtutem videant intabescantque relicta | A |
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| She stood before her traitors bound and bare | B |
| Clothed with her wounds and with her naked shame | C |
| As with a weed of fiery tears and flame | C |
| Their mother land their common weal and care | B |
| And they turned from her and denied and sware | B |
| They did not know this woman nor her name | C |
| And they took truce with tyrants and grew tame | C |
| And gathered up cast crowns and creeds to wear | B |
| And rags and shards regilded Then she took | D |
| In her bruised hands their broken pledge and eyed | A |
| These men so late so loud upon her side | A |
| With one inevitable and tearless look | D |
| That they might see her face whom they forsook | D |
| And they beheld what they had left and died | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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