Bianca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCDDC EEFFE GGHHG IJKKI LLMML NNMMN| Her cheeks are hot her cheeks are white | A |
| The white girl hardly breathes to night | A |
| So faint the pulses come and go | B |
| That waken to a smouldering glow | B |
| The morbid faintness of her white | A |
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| What drowsing heats of sense desire | C |
| Longing and languorous the fire | C |
| Of what white ashes subtly mesh | D |
| The fascination of her flesh | D |
| Into a breathing web of fire | C |
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| Only her eyes only her mouth | E |
| Live in the agony of drouth | E |
| Athirst for that which may not be | F |
| The desert of virginity | F |
| Aches in the hotness of her mouth | E |
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| I take her hands into my hands | G |
| Silently and she understands | G |
| I set my lips upon her lips | H |
| Shuddering to her finger tips | H |
| She strains my hands within her hands | G |
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| I set my lips on hers they close | I |
| Into a false and phantom rose | J |
| Upon her thirsting lips I rain | K |
| A flood of kisses and in vain | K |
| Her lips inexorably close | I |
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| Through her closed lips that cling to mine | L |
| Her hands that hold me and entwine | L |
| Her body that abondoned lies | M |
| Rigid with sterile ecstasies | M |
| A shiver knits her flesh to mine | L |
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| Life sucks into a mist remote | N |
| Her fainting lips her throbbing throat | N |
| Her lips that open to my lips | M |
| And hot against her finger tips | M |
| The pulses leaping in her throat | N |
Arthur Symons
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