The Roundel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BAB CBDB| A roundel is wrought as a ring or a starbright sphere | A |
| With craft of delight and with cunning of sound unsought | B |
| That the heart of the hearer may smile if to pleasure his ear | C |
| A roundel is wrought | B |
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| Its jewel of music is carven of all or of aught | B |
| Love laughter or mourning remembrance of rapture or fear | A |
| That fancy may fashion to hang in the ear of thought | B |
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| As a bird's quick song runs round and the hearts in us hear | C |
| Pause answer to pause and again the same strain caught | B |
| So moves the device whence round as a pearl or tear | D |
| A roundel is wrought | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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