Three Faces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC CBC BCBC A DEFE EDE DEDE G HIHI IHI HIHI| I VENTIMIGLIA | A |
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| The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank | B |
| Down the one steep street with slow steps firm and free | C |
| A tall girl paced with eyes too proud to thank | B |
| The sky and sea | C |
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| One dead flat sapphire void of wrath or glee | C |
| Through bay on bay shone blind from bank to bank | B |
| The weary Mediterranean drear to see | C |
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| More deep more living shone her eyes that drank | B |
| The breathless light and shed again on me | C |
| Till pale before their splendour waned and shrank | B |
| The sky and sea | C |
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| II GENOA | A |
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| Again the same strange might of eyes that saw | D |
| In heaven and earth nought fairer overcame | E |
| My sight with rapture of reiterate awe | F |
| Again the same | E |
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| The self same pulse of wonder shook like flame | E |
| The spirit of sense within me what strange law | D |
| Had bid this be for blessing or for blame | E |
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| To what veiled end that fate or chance foresaw | D |
| Came forth this second sister face that came | E |
| Absolute perfect fair without a flaw | D |
| Again the same | E |
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| III VENICE | G |
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| Out of the dark pure twilight where the stream | H |
| Flows glimmering streaked by many a birdlike bark | I |
| That skims the gloom whence towers and bridges gleam | H |
| Out of the dark | I |
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| Once more a face no glance might choose but mark | I |
| Shone pale and bright with eyes whose deep slow beam | H |
| Made quick the twilight lifeless else and stark | I |
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| The same it seemed or mystery made it seem | H |
| As those before beholden but St Mark | I |
| Ruled here the ways that showed it like a dream | H |
| Out of the dark | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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