The Death Of Adonis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGHIJDCKJ KLF FMKMNNM LDFDKD OPQPRSTS UVTVWXFX| Cythera saw Adonis | A |
| And knew that he was dead | B |
| She marked the brow all grisly now | C |
| The cheek no longer red | B |
| And 'Bring the boar before me' | D |
| Unto her Loves she said | B |
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| Forthwith her winged attendants | E |
| Ranged all the woodland o'er | F |
| And found and bound in fetters | G |
| Threefold the grisly boar | H |
| One dragged him at a rope's end | I |
| E'en as a vanquished foe | J |
| One went behind and drave him | D |
| And smote him with his bow | C |
| On paced the creature feebly | K |
| He feared Cythera so | J |
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| To him said Aphrodite | K |
| 'So worst of beasts 'twas you | L |
| Who rent that thigh asunder | F |
| Who him that loved me slew ' | - |
| And thus the beast made answer | F |
| 'Cythera hear me swear | M |
| By thee by him that loved thee | K |
| And by these bonds I wear | M |
| And them before whose hounds I ran | N |
| I meant no mischief to the man | N |
| Who seemed to thee so fair | M |
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| 'As on a carven statue | L |
| Men gaze I gazed on him | D |
| I seemed on fire with mad desire | F |
| To kiss that offered limb | D |
| My ruin Aphrodite | K |
| Thus followed from my whim | D |
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| 'Now therefore take and punish | O |
| And fairly cut away | P |
| These all unruly tusks of mine | Q |
| For to what end serve they | P |
| And if thine indignation | R |
| Be not content with this | S |
| Cut off the mouth that ventured | T |
| To offer him a kiss' | S |
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| But Aphrodite pitied | U |
| And bade them loose his chain | V |
| The boar from that day forward | T |
| Still followed in her train | V |
| Nor ever to the wildwood | W |
| Attempted to return | X |
| But in the focus of Desire | F |
| Preferred to burn and burn | X |
Jon Corelis Theocritus
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