Lesbia's Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHIJJKLMM| LESBIA'S daughter I shall tell no lie | A |
| Here's no fit amber for such a dainty fly | A |
| Let them embalm your beauty whoso can | B |
| In boastful odes I'm a more honest man | B |
| Lovers' abodes with poets' words are paved | C |
| But prudent girls would get those vows engraved | C |
| For brass than paper being something stronger | D |
| May last it's more than like a fortnight longer | D |
| Where's the fine music that the fossil men | E |
| Of lost Lemuria brandished on a pen | E |
| All tossed in earth men music lovers gone | F |
| And where's the lust a skull has for a bone | G |
| If joy can turn a moment to a year | H |
| Why take to Then and There what's meant for Here | I |
| Or nurture for a cemetery tense | J |
| The curious pleasures of impermanence | J |
| Look for no lovers on that later scene | K |
| Let it avail you Are who shall have Been | L |
| Burnt utterly the stick you had to burn | M |
| Lived once loved well gave thanks and won't return | M |
Kenneth Slessor
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