Death-in-love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAABBA CDDCEThere came an image in Life's retinue | A |
That had Love's wings and bore his gonfalon | A |
Fair was the web and nobly wrought thereon | A |
O soul sequestered face thy form and hue | A |
Bewildering sounds such as Spring wakens to | A |
Shook in its folds and through my heart its power | B |
Sped trackless as the immemorable hour | B |
When birth's dark portal groaned and all was new | A |
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But a veiled woman followed and she caught | C |
The banner round its staff to furl and cling | D |
Then plucked a feather from the bearer's wing | D |
And held it to his lips that stirred it not | C |
And said to me 'Behold there is no breath | E |
I and this Love are one and I am Death ' | - |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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