Lais When Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDECDE| Lais when young and all her charms in flower | A |
| Lais whose beauty was the fateful light | B |
| That led great ships to anchor in the night | B |
| And bring their priceless cargoes to her bower | A |
| Lais yet found her cup of sweet turned sour | A |
| Great Plato's pupil from his lofty height | B |
| Zenocrates unmoved had seen the white | B |
| Sweet wonder of her and defied her power | A |
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| She snared the world in nets of subtle wiles | C |
| The proud the famed all clamoured at her gate | D |
| Dictators plead inside her portico | E |
| Wisdom sought madness in her favouring smiles | C |
| Now was she made the laughing stock of fate | D |
| One loosed her clinging arms and bade her go | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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