Sonnet Lxxxv: Vain Virtues Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCDEFGEFG| What is the sorriest thing that enters Hell | A |
| None of the sins but this and that fair deed | B |
| Which a soul's sin at length could supersede | B |
| These yet are virgins whom death's timely knell | A |
| Might once have sainted whom the fiends compel | A |
| Together now in snake bound shuddering sheaves | C |
| Of anguish while the pit's pollution leaves | C |
| Their refuse maidenhood abominable | D |
| Night sucks them down the tribute of the pit | E |
| Whose names half entered in the book of Life | F |
| Were God's desire at noon And as their hair | G |
| And eyes sink last the Torturer deigns no whit | E |
| To gaze but yearning waits his destined wife | F |
| The Sin still blithe on earth that sent them there | G |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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