Caesar's Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLKMNOIOPQRSTIUV M WXYIZA2B2C2XE TD2IE2IA2IXXF2E| NAY swear no more thou woman whom I called | A |
| Star Empress Wife Were Dian's self to lean | B |
| From her white altar and with goddess lip | C |
| Swear thee as pure as her pale breast divine | D |
| I could not deem thee purer than I know | E |
| Thou art indeed | F |
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| Once when my triumphs rolled | G |
| Along old Rome and blood of roses washed | H |
| The battle stains from off my chariot wheels | I |
| And triumph's thunders round my legions roared | J |
| And kings in kingly bondage golden bound | K |
| Shook at my charger's foot past the hot din | L |
| Of Victory whose heart of golden pride in wound | K |
| Most subtly through with fire of subtlest pain | M |
| My soul on prouder pinion rose above | N |
| The Roman shouting to an air more clear | O |
| Than that Jove darks with hurtling thunderbolts | I |
| Or stains with Jovian revels that separate sphere | O |
| Unshared of gods or man where thy white feet | P |
| Caught their sole staining from my ruddy heart | Q |
| Blazing beneath them where when Rome looked up | R |
| 'Twas with the eyes close shaded with the hand | S |
| As at some glory terrible and pure | T |
| For no man being pure a terror dwells | I |
| Holy and awful in a sinless thing | U |
| And Caesar's wife the Empress Matron sat | V |
| Above a doubt as high above a stain | M |
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| Nay how know I what hell first belched abroad | W |
| Tall flames and slanderous vomitings of smoke | X |
| Blown by infernal breathings till they scaled | Y |
| Thy throne of whiteness and the very slaves | I |
| Who crouched in Roman kennels wagged the tongue | Z |
| Against the wife of Caesar 'Ha we need not now | A2 |
| And opal shaded stone wherewith to view | B2 |
| A stainless glory ' In that day my neck | C2 |
| Was bound and yoked with my twin Caesar's yoke | X |
| Man's master Sorrow | E |
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| I know thee pure | T |
| But Caesar's wife must throne herself so high | D2 |
| Upon the hills that touch their snowy crests | I |
| So close on Heaven that no slanderous Hell | E2 |
| Can dash its lava up their swelling sides | I |
| I love thee woman know thee pure but thou | A2 |
| No more art wife of Caesar Get thee hence | I |
| My heart is hardened as a lonely crag | X |
| Grey granite lifted to a greyer sky | X |
| And where against its solitary crown | F2 |
| Eternal thunders bellow | E |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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