Benedictine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CCDD EFFE DDDD GHIG| The Benedictine scents and stains | A |
| the languor of your pallid lips | B |
| My kiss shall be a bee that sips | B |
| A fainting roseleaf flushed with rains | A |
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| I thirst and yet my thirst increases | C |
| With draining deep and deeper kisses | C |
| The odour of your breath releases | D |
| Desires that dream of deeper blisses | D |
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| And on my lips your lips now pressed | E |
| Cling moist and close your lips begin | F |
| Devouringly to gather in | F |
| Your kisses that my lips possessed | E |
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| The odour of your breath releases | D |
| Wafts of intoxicating blisses | D |
| Yet still my thirst of you increases | D |
| I think beneath your thirsty kisses | D |
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| No kisses more this perilous day | G |
| Or tempting tempt me not in vain | H |
| This day I dare not taste again | I |
| Your lips that suck my soul away | G |
Arthur Symons
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