From "vashti" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGAHIJKALMNOPQ RFSTSSRUV| WHAT thing shall be held up to woman's beauty | A |
| Where are the bounds of it Yea what is all | B |
| The world but an awning scaffolded amid | C |
| The waste perilous Eternity to lodge | D |
| This Heaven wander'd princess woman's beauty | A |
| The East and West kneel down to thee the North | E |
| And South and all for thee their shoulders bear | F |
| The load of fourfold space As yellow morn | G |
| Runs on the slippery waves of the spread sea | A |
| Thy feet are on the griefs and joys of men | H |
| That sheen to be thy causey Out of tears | I |
| Indeed and blitheness murder and lust and love | J |
| Whatever has been passionate in clay | K |
| Thy flesh was tempered Behold in thy body | A |
| The yearnings of all men measured and told | L |
| Insatiate endless agonies of desire | M |
| Given thy flesh the meaning of thy shape | N |
| What beauty is there but thou makest it | O |
| How is earth good to look on woods and fields | P |
| The season's garden and the courageous hills | Q |
| All this green raft of earth moored in the seas | R |
| The manner of the sun to ride the air | F |
| The stars God has imagined for the night | S |
| What's this behind them that we cannot near | T |
| Secret still on the point of being blabbed | S |
| The ghost in the world that flies from being named | S |
| Where do they get their beauty from all these | R |
| They do but glaze a lantern lit for man | U |
| And woman's beauty is the flame therein | V |
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