A Foretaste Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDE| AT length the then of my long hope was now | A |
| Yet had my spirit an extreme unrest | B |
| I knew the good from better was grown best | B |
| At length but could not just as yet tell how | A |
| So I lay straight along and thrust my brow | A |
| Under the heights of grass Hours struck The West | B |
| I knew must be at change but gazed not lest | B |
| The heat against my naked face no bough | A |
| For shade should tease me mad like poisoned spice | C |
| I lay along letting my whole self think | D |
| Pressing my brow down that the thoughts might fix | E |
| Just as a dicer who holds loaded dice | C |
| Sure of his cast keeps trifling with his drink | D |
| Ere he will throw and still must taste and mix | E |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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