Sonnet Xvii: Beauty's Pageant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCCBDBBDDB| What dawn pulse at the heart of heaven or last | A |
| Incarnate flower of culminating day | B |
| What marshalled marvels on the skirts of May | B |
| Or song full quired sweet June's encomiast | B |
| What glory of change by Nature's hand amass'd | B |
| Can vie with all those moods of varying grace | C |
| Which o'er one loveliest woman's form and face | C |
| Within this hour within this room have pass'd | B |
| Love's very vesture and elect disguise | D |
| Was each fine movement wonder new begot | B |
| Of lily or swan or swan stemmed galiot | B |
| Joy to his sight who now the sadlier sighs | D |
| Parted again and sorrow yet for eyes | D |
| Unborn that read these words and saw her not | B |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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