Invocation To The Mad Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEEFGHGIJIJKLK| I would you were the hollow ship | A |
| fashioned to bear the cargo of my love | B |
| the unrelenting glove | B |
| hurled in defiance at our blackest world | C |
| or that great banner mad unfurled | C |
| the poet plants upon the hill of time | D |
| or else amphora for the gold of life | E |
| liquid and naked as a virgin wife | E |
| Yourself the prize | F |
| I gird with Fire | G |
| The Great White Ruin | H |
| Of my Desire | G |
| I burn to gold | I |
| fierce and unerring as a conquering sword | J |
| I burn to gold | I |
| fierce and undaunted as a lion lord | J |
| seeking your Bed | K |
| and leave to them the | L |
| burning of the dead | K |
Harry Crosby
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