Prayer For His Lady-s Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCC DEFCDG BCCC| FROM PROPERTIUS ELEGIAE LIB III | A |
| Here let thy clemency Persephone hold firm | B |
| Do thou Pluto bring here no greater harshness | C |
| So many thousand beauties are gone down to Avernus | C |
| Ye might let one remain above with us | C |
| - | |
| With you is lope with you the white gleaming Tyro | D |
| With you is Europa and the shameless Pasiphae | E |
| And all the fair from Troy and all from Achaia | F |
| From the sundered realms of Thebes and of aged Priamus | C |
| And all the maidens of Rome as many as they were | D |
| They died and the greed of your flame consumes them | G |
| - | |
| Here let thy clemency Persephone hold firm | B |
| Do thou Pluto bring here no greater harshness | C |
| So many thousandfair are gone down to Avernus | C |
| Ye might let one remain above with us | C |
Ezra Pound
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