Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD DDEFDD GHIDJJD| All Greece hates | A |
| the still eyes in the white face | B |
| the lustre of the olives | C |
| where she stands | D |
| and the white hands | D |
| - | |
| All Greece reviles | D |
| the wan face when she smiles | D |
| hating it deeper still | E |
| when it grows wan and white | F |
| remembering past enchantments | D |
| and past ills | D |
| - | |
| Greece sees unmoved | G |
| God's daughter born of love | H |
| the beauty of cool feet | I |
| and slenderest knees | D |
| could love indeed the maid | J |
| only if she were laid | J |
| white ash amid funeral cypresses | D |
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