Treachery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEC A FGEGHG A IJKJLJ M INBNIN M OPFPQP M QOOORO M QSQSMS M TUEUQUI | A |
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Came a spicy smell of showers | B |
On the purple wings of night | C |
And a pearl encrusted crescent | D |
On the lake looked still and white | C |
While a sound of distant singing | E |
From the vales rose sad and light | C |
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II | A |
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Dripped the musk of sodden roses | F |
From their million heavy sprays | G |
And the nightingales were sobbing | E |
Of the roses amorous praise | G |
Where the raven down of even | H |
Caught the moonlight's bleaching rays | G |
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III | A |
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And the turrets of the palace | I |
From its belt of ancient trees | J |
On the mountain rose romantic | K |
White as foam from troubled seas | J |
And the murmur of an ocean | L |
Smote the chords of ev'ry breeze | J |
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IV | M |
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Where the moon shone on the terrace | I |
And its fountain's lisping foam | N |
Where the bronzen urns of flowers | B |
Breathed faint perfume thro' the gloam | N |
By the alabaster Venus | I |
'Neath the quiet stars we'd roam | N |
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V | M |
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And we stopped beside the statue | O |
Of the marble Venus there | P |
Deeply pedestaled 'mid roses | F |
Who their crimson hearts laid bare | P |
Breathing out their lives in fragrance | Q |
At her naked feet and fair | P |
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VI | M |
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And we marked the purple dingles | Q |
Where the lazy vapors lolled | O |
Like thin fleecy ribs of moonlight | O |
Touched with amethyst and gold | O |
And we marked the wild deer glimmer | R |
Like dim specters where they strolled | O |
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VII | M |
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But from out those treach'rous roses | Q |
Crept a serpent and it stung | S |
Poisoned him who'd tuned my heart strings | Q |
Till for him alone they sung | S |
Froze the nerves of hands that only | M |
From its chords a note had wrung | S |
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VIII | M |
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Now the nightingales in anguish | T |
To cold ashen roses moan | U |
Now a sound of desolate wailing | E |
In the darkened palace lone | U |
From a harp olian quavers | Q |
Broken on an empty throne | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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