The Saviour Of Society Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEFFGD HIIHHIIHJKLKKL| A | |
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| O son of man but of what man who knows | B |
| That broughtest healing on thy leathern wings | C |
| To priests and under them didst gather kings | C |
| And madest friends to thee of all man's foes | B |
| Before thine incarnation the tale goes | B |
| Thy virgin mother pure of sensual stings | C |
| Communed by night with angels of chaste things | C |
| And full of grace untimely felt the throes | B |
| Of motherhood upon her and believed | D |
| The obscure annunciation made when late | E |
| A raven feathered raven throated dove | F |
| Croaked salutation to the mother of love | F |
| Whose misconception was immaculate | G |
| And when her time was come she misconceived | D |
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| Thine incarnation was upon this wise | H |
| Saviour and out of east and west were led | I |
| To thy foul cradle by thy planet red | I |
| Shepherds of souls that feed their sheep with lies | H |
| Till the utter soul die as the body dies | H |
| And the wise men that ask but to be fed | I |
| Though the hot shambles be their board and bed | I |
| And sleep on any dunghill shut their eyes | H |
| So they lie warm and fatten in the mire | J |
| And the high priest enthroned yet in thy name | K |
| Judas baptised thee with men's blood for hire | L |
| And now thou hangest nailed to thine own shame | K |
| In sight of all time but while heaven has flame | K |
| Shalt find no resurrection from hell fire | L |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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