Artemis Altera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DEAE CFCF GHIH| O full of candour and compassion | A |
| Whom love and worship both would praise | B |
| Love cannot frame nor worship fashion | A |
| The image of your fearless ways | B |
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| How show your noble brow's dark pallor | C |
| Your chivalrous casque of ebon hair | C |
| Your eyes' bright strength your lips' soft valour | C |
| Your supple shoulders and hands that dare | C |
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| Our souls when na vely you examine | D |
| Your sword of innocence flaming huge | E |
| Sweeps over us and there is famine | A |
| Within the ports of subterfuge | E |
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| You hate contempt and love not laughter | C |
| With your sharp spear of virgin will | F |
| You harry the wicked strong but after | C |
| O huntress who could never kill | F |
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| Should they be trodden down or pierced | G |
| Swift swift you fly with burning cheek | H |
| To place your beauty's shield reversed | I |
| Above the vile defenceless weak | H |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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