The Monument Of Giordano Bruno Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBDEEDFF AGHHGGHHGIJJIFF| I | A |
| Not from without us only from within | B |
| Comes or can ever come upon us light | C |
| Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight | C |
| No truth no strength no comfort man may win | B |
| No grace for guidance no release from sin | B |
| Save of his own soul's giving Deep and bright | C |
| As fire enkindled in the core of night | C |
| Burns in the soul where once its fire has been | B |
| The light that leads and quickens thought inspired | D |
| To doubt and trust and conquer So he said | E |
| Whom Sidney flower of England lordliest head | E |
| Of all we love loved but the fates required | D |
| A sacrifice to hate and hell ere fame | F |
| Should set with his in heaven Giordano's name | F |
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| II | A |
| Cover thine eyes and weep O child of hell | G |
| Grey spouse of Satan Church of name abhorred | H |
| Weep withered harlot with thy weeping lord | H |
| Now none will buy the heaven thou hast to sell | G |
| At price of prostituted souls and swell | G |
| Thy loveless list of lovers Fire and sword | H |
| No more are thine the steel the wheel the cord | H |
| The flames that rose round living limbs and fell | G |
| In lifeless ash and ember now no more | I |
| Approve thee godlike Rome redeemed at last | J |
| From all the red pollution of thy past | J |
| Acclaims the grave bright face that smiled of yore | I |
| Even on the fire that caught it round and clomb | F |
| To cast its ashes on the face of Rome | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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