The House Of Life: Introductory Sonnet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCABBC DEDEFF| A Sonnet is a moment's monument | A |
| Memorial from the Soul's eternity | B |
| To one dead deathless hour Look that it be | B |
| Whether for lustral rite or dire portent | C |
| Of its own arduous fulness reverent | A |
| Carve it in ivory or in ebony | B |
| As Day or Night may rule and let Time see | B |
| Its flowering crest impearled and orient | C |
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| A Sonnet is a coin its face reveals | D |
| The soul its converse to what Power 'tis due | E |
| Whether for tribute to the august appeals | D |
| Of Life or dower in Love's high retinue | E |
| It serve or 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath | F |
| In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death | F |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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