For Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDDBEFBFEB A GHHGGHHGIJKJIK| I | A |
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| A REMOTE sky prolonged to the sea's brim | B |
| One rock point standing buffeted alone | C |
| Vexed at its base with a foul beast unknown | C |
| Hell birth of geomaunt and teraphim | B |
| A knight and a winged creature bearing him | B |
| Reared at the rock a woman fettered there | D |
| Leaning into the hollow with loose hair | D |
| And throat let back and heartsick trail of limb | B |
| The sky is harsh and the sea shrewd and salt | E |
| Under his lord the griffin horse ramps blind | F |
| With rigid wings and tail The spear's lithe stem | B |
| Thrills in the roaring of those jaws behind | F |
| That evil length of body chafes at fault | E |
| She does not hear nor see she knows of them | B |
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| II | A |
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| CLENCH thine eyes now 'tis the last instant girl | G |
| Draw in thy senses set thy knees and take | H |
| One breath for all thy life is keen awake | H |
| Thou mayst not swoon Was that the scattered whirl | G |
| Of its foam drenched thee or the waves that curl | G |
| And split bleak spray wherein thy temples ache | H |
| Or was it his the champion's blood to flake | H |
| Thy flesh or thine own blood's anointing girl | G |
| Now silence for the sea's is such a sound | I |
| As irks not silence and except the sea | J |
| All now is still Now the dead thing doth cease | K |
| To writhe and drifts He turns to her and she | J |
| Cast from the jaws of Death remains there bound | I |
| Again a woman in her nakedness | K |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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