Caesar's Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLKMNOIOPQRSTIUV M WXYIZA2B2C2XE TD2IE2IA2IXXF2E

NAY swear no more thou woman whom I calledA
Star Empress Wife Were Dian's self to leanB
From her white altar and with goddess lipC
Swear thee as pure as her pale breast divineD
I could not deem thee purer than I knowE
Thou art indeedF
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Once when my triumphs rolledG
Along old Rome and blood of roses washedH
The battle stains from off my chariot wheelsI
And triumph's thunders round my legions roaredJ
And kings in kingly bondage golden boundK
Shook at my charger's foot past the hot dinL
Of Victory whose heart of golden pride in woundK
Most subtly through with fire of subtlest painM
My soul on prouder pinion rose aboveN
The Roman shouting to an air more clearO
Than that Jove darks with hurtling thunderboltsI
Or stains with Jovian revels that separate sphereO
Unshared of gods or man where thy white feetP
Caught their sole staining from my ruddy heartQ
Blazing beneath them where when Rome looked upR
'Twas with the eyes close shaded with the handS
As at some glory terrible and pureT
For no man being pure a terror dwellsI
Holy and awful in a sinless thingU
And Caesar's wife the Empress Matron satV
Above a doubt as high above a stainM
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Nay how know I what hell first belched abroadW
Tall flames and slanderous vomitings of smokeX
Blown by infernal breathings till they scaledY
Thy throne of whiteness and the very slavesI
Who crouched in Roman kennels wagged the tongueZ
Against the wife of Caesar 'Ha we need not nowA2
And opal shaded stone wherewith to viewB2
A stainless glory ' In that day my neckC2
Was bound and yoked with my twin Caesar's yokeX
Man's master SorrowE
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I know thee pureT
But Caesar's wife must throne herself so highD2
Upon the hills that touch their snowy crestsI
So close on Heaven that no slanderous HellE2
Can dash its lava up their swelling sidesI
I love thee woman know thee pure but thouA2
No more art wife of Caesar Get thee henceI
My heart is hardened as a lonely cragX
Grey granite lifted to a greyer skyX
And where against its solitary crownF2
Eternal thunders bellowE

Isabella Valancy Crawford



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