Cassandra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCDEEF GHIJKHLMMHNN AOOMPHQRSHHTNUQVW AMLMOXNDXNDFYZNA2FO B2B2NC2NC2D2E2C2F2HC 2G2H2VH2HI2J2K2| O Hymen king | A |
| - | |
| Hymen O Hymen king | A |
| what bitter thing is this | B |
| what shaft tearing my heart | C |
| what scar what light what fire | D |
| searing my eye balls and my eyes with flame | E |
| nameless O spoken name | E |
| king lord speak blameless Hymen | F |
| - | |
| Why do you blind my eyes | G |
| why do you dart and pulse | H |
| till all the dark is home | I |
| then find my soul | J |
| and ruthless draw it back | K |
| scaling the scaleless | H |
| opening the dark | L |
| speak nameless power and might | M |
| when will you leave me quite | M |
| when will you break my wings | H |
| or leave them utterly free | N |
| to scale heaven endlessly | N |
| - | |
| A bitter broken thing | A |
| my heart O Hymen lord | O |
| yet neither drought nor sword | O |
| baffles men quite | M |
| why must they feign to fear | P |
| my virgin glance | H |
| feigned utterly or real | Q |
| why do they shrink | R |
| my trance frightens them | S |
| breaks the dance | H |
| empties the market place | H |
| if I but pass they fall | T |
| back frantically | N |
| must always people mock | U |
| unless they shrink and reel | Q |
| as in the temple | V |
| at your uttered will | W |
| - | |
| O Hymen king | A |
| lord greatest power might | M |
| look for my face is dark | L |
| burnt with your light | M |
| your fire O Hymen lord | O |
| is there none left | X |
| can equal me | N |
| in ecstasy desire | D |
| is there none left | X |
| can bear with me | N |
| the kiss of your white fire | D |
| is there not one | F |
| Phrygian or frenzied Greek | Y |
| poet song swept or bard | Z |
| one meet to take from me | N |
| this bitter power of song | A2 |
| one fit to speak Hymen | F |
| your praises lord | O |
| - | |
| May I not wed | B2 |
| as you have wed | B2 |
| may it not break beauty | N |
| from out my hands my head my feet | C2 |
| may Love not lie beside me | N |
| till his heat | C2 |
| burn me to ash | D2 |
| may he not comfort me then | E2 |
| spent of all that fire and heat | C2 |
| still ashen white and cool | F2 |
| as the wet laurels | H |
| white before your feet | C2 |
| step on the mountain slope | G2 |
| before your fiery hand | H2 |
| lift up the mantle | V |
| covering flower and land | H2 |
| as a man lifts | H |
| O Hymen from his bride | I2 |
| cowering with woman eyes the veil | J2 |
| O Hymen lord be kind | K2 |
Hilda Doolittle
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