The Lust Of The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDCCDCEECFGGFCHHC| SINCE Man first lifted up his eyes to hers | A |
| And saw her vampire beauty which is lust | B |
| All else is dust | B |
| Within the compass of the universe | C |
| With heart of Jael and with face of Ruth | D |
| She sits upon the tomb of Time and quaffs | C |
| Heart's blood and laughs | C |
| At all Life calls most noble and the truth | D |
| The fire of conquest and the wine of dreams | C |
| Are in her veins and in her eyes the lure | E |
| Of things unsure | E |
| Urging the world forever to extremes | C |
| Without her Life would stagnate in a while | F |
| Her touch it is puts pleasure even in pain | G |
| So Life attain | G |
| Her end she cares not if the means be vile | F |
| She knows no pity mercy or remorse | C |
| Hers is to build and then exterminate | H |
| To slay create | H |
| And twixt the two maintain an equal course | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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