Before The Temple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB C DEDDD C AFAFG H IJIJJ| All desolate she sate her down | A |
| Upon the marble of the temple's stair | B |
| You would have thought her with her eyes of brown | A |
| Flushed cheeks and hazel hair | B |
| A dryad dreaming there | B |
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| II | C |
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| A priest of Bacchus passed nor stopped | D |
| To chide her deeming her whose chiton hid | E |
| But half her bosom and whose girdle dropped | D |
| Some grief drowned Bassarid | D |
| The god of wine had chid | D |
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| III | C |
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| With wreaths of woodland cyclamen | A |
| For Dian's shrine a shepherdess drew near | F |
| All her young thoughts on vestal beauty when | A |
| She dare not look for fear | F |
| Behold the goddess here | G |
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| IV | H |
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| Fierce lights on shields of bossy brass | I |
| And helms of gold next from the hills deploy | J |
| Tall youths of Argos And she sees him pass | I |
| Flushed with heroic joy | J |
| On towards the siege of Troy | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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