Modern Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIHIJJ| I am the torch she saith and what to me | A |
| If the moth die of me I am the flame | B |
| Of Beauty and I burn that all may see | A |
| Beauty and I have neither joy nor shame | B |
| But live with that clear light of perfect fire | C |
| Which is to men the death of their desire | C |
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| I am Yseult and Helen I have seen | D |
| Troy burn and the most loving knight lies dead | E |
| The world has been my mirror time has been | F |
| My breath upon the glass and men have said | E |
| Age after age in rapture and despair | G |
| Love's poor few words before my image there | G |
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| I live and am immortal in my eyes | H |
| The sorrow of the world and on my lips | I |
| The joy of life mingle to make me wise | H |
| Yet now the day is darkened with eclipse | I |
| Who is there lives for beauty Still am I | J |
| The torch but where's the moth that still dares die | J |
Arthur Symons
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