Sonnet Xxiii: To Aetna's Scorching Sands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDEDE| To AEtna's scorching sands my Phaon flies | A |
| False Youth can other charms attractive prove | B |
| Say can Sicilian loves thy passions move | B |
| Play round thy heart and fix thy fickle eyes | A |
| While in despair the Lesbian Sappho dies | A |
| Has Spring for thee a crown of poppies wove | C |
| Or dost thou languish in th' Idalian grove | C |
| Whose altar kindles fann'd by Lover's sighs | A |
| Ah think that while on AEtna's shores you stray | D |
| A fire more fierce than AEtna's fills my breast | E |
| Nor deck Sicilian nymphs with garlands gay | D |
| While Sappho's brows with cypress wreaths are drest | E |
| Let one kind word my weary woes repay | D |
| Or in eternal slumbers bid them rest | E |
Mary Darby Robinson
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