Venus' Looking-glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECFE| I marked where lovely Venus and her court | A |
| With song and dance and merry laugh went by | B |
| Weightless their wingless feet seemed made to fly | B |
| Bound from the ground and in mid air to sport | A |
| Left far behind I heard the dolphins snort | A |
| Tracking their goddess with a wistful eye | B |
| Around whose head white doves rose wheeling high | B |
| Or low and cooed after their tender sort | A |
| All this I saw in spring Through summer heat | C |
| I saw the lovely Queen of Love no more | D |
| But when flushed autumn through the woodlands went | E |
| I spied sweet Venus walk amid the wheat | C |
| Whom seeing every harvester gave o'er | F |
| His toil and laughed and hoped and was content | E |
Christina Rossetti
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