April Treason Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDDDEE DDFFGG HHIIFF JJIIDD HHDDFF| So he took her as anointed | A |
| In the part he had appointed | A |
| She was lips for smiling faintly | B |
| Eyes to look and level quaintly | B |
| Length of limb and splendors of the bust | C |
| Which he honored as he must | C |
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| Queen of women playing model | D |
| Pure of brow but brain not idle | D |
| Sitting in her silence meetly | D |
| Let her adjective be stately | D |
| So he thought his art would manage right | E |
| In the honest Northern light | E |
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| But he fashioned it too coldly | D |
| April broke and entered boldly | D |
| Thinking how to suit the season s | F |
| Odor savor heats and treasons | F |
| Painter do not stoop and play the host | G |
| Lest the man come uppermost | G |
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| Yet he knew that he was altered | H |
| When the perfect woman faltered | H |
| Languish in her softly speaking | I |
| Anguish even in her looking | I |
| All the art had fled his fingertips | F |
| So he bent and kissed her lips | F |
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| He and Venus took their pleasure | J |
| Then he turned upon his treasure | J |
| Took and trampled it with loathing | I |
| Flung it over cliffs to nothing | I |
| Glittering in the sunlight while it fell | D |
| Like a lovely shattered shell | D |
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| Strict the silence that came onward | H |
| As they trod the foothill downward | H |
| One more mocking noon of April | D |
| Mischief always is in April | D |
| Still she touched his fingers cold as ice | F |
| And recited It was nice | F |
John Crowe Ransom
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