Sonnet Lxxxvii: Death's Songsters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEDFGFGHH| When first that horse within whose populous womb | A |
| The birth was death o'ershadowed Troy with fate | B |
| Her elders dubious of its Grecian freight | B |
| Brought Helen there to sing the songs of home | C |
| She whispered Friends I am alone come come | D |
| Then crouched within Ulysses waxed afraid | E |
| And on his comrades' quivering mouths he laid | E |
| His hands and held them till the voice was dumb | D |
| The same was he who lashed to his own mast | F |
| There where the sea flowers screen the charnel caves | G |
| Beside the sirens' singing island pass'd | F |
| Till sweetness failed along the inveterate waves | G |
| Say soul are songs of Death no heaven to thee | H |
| Nor shames her lip the cheek of Victory | H |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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