The Moonstar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABCD EFEFFE| Lady I thank thee for thy loveliness | A |
| Because my lady is more lovely still | B |
| Glorying I gaze and yield with glad goodwill | B |
| To thee thy tribute by whose sweet spun dress | A |
| Of delicate life Love labours to assess | A |
| My Lady's absolute queendom saying 'Lo | B |
| How high this beauty is which yet doth show | C |
| But as that beauty's sovereign votaress ' | D |
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| Lady I saw thee with her side by side | E |
| And as when night's fair fires their queen surround | F |
| An emulous star too near the moon will ride | E |
| Even so thy rays within her luminous bound | F |
| Were traced no more and by the light so drown'd | F |
| Lady not thou but she was glorified | E |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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