Cassandra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAABBCCBBDEFGE A FHHFFHHFHIHJIH| I | A |
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| REND rend thine hair Cassandra he will go | B |
| Yea rend thy garments wring thine hands and cry | A |
| From Troy still towered to the unreddened sky | A |
| See all but she that bore thee mock thy woe | B |
| He most whom that fair woman arms with show | B |
| Of wrath on her bent brows for in this place | C |
| This hour thou bad'st all men in Helen's face | C |
| The ravished ravishing prize of Death to know | B |
| What eyes what ears hath sweet Andromache | B |
| Save for her Hector's form and step as tear | D |
| On tear make salt the warm last kiss he gave | E |
| He goes Cassandra's words beat heavily | F |
| Like crows above his crest and at his ear | G |
| Ring hollow in the shield that shall not save | E |
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| II | A |
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| O HECTOR gone gone gone O Hector thee | F |
| Two chariots wait in Troy long bless'd and curs'd | H |
| And Grecian spear and Phrygian sand athirst | H |
| Crave from thy veins the blood of victory | F |
| Lo long upon our hearth the brand had we | F |
| Lit for the roof tree's ruin and to day | H |
| The ground stone quits the wall the wind hath way | H |
| And higher and higher the wings of fire are free | F |
| O Paris Paris O thou burning brand | H |
| Thou beacon of the sea whence Venus rose | I |
| Lighting thy race to shipwreck Even that hand | H |
| Wherewith she took thine apple let her close | J |
| Within thy curls at last and while Troy glows | I |
| Lift thee her trophy to the sea and land | H |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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