The Chalice Of Circe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAC ADAAD EFEEF GHIIH AIAAI IJIIJ KIKKI LMLLM HNHHN FOFFO| DRINK of our Cup of the red wine that burns in it | A |
| All the wild shames that have crusted its mouth | B |
| Passion that twists in it Madness that churns in it | A |
| Fever that yearns in it Folly that turns in it | A |
| Drink of our Cup It is Love it is Youth | C |
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| Amorous valleys have travailed to breed in it | A |
| Eden hath shaken one tree at its brim | D |
| Syria scattered an infamous seed in it | A |
| Paphos hath freed in it lovers to bleed in it | A |
| Foam from Armida hath rusted its rim | D |
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| Chalice of gold with the bruised roses dying there | E |
| How the mad kisses have clustered and clung | F |
| All the sweet loves of the world softly crying there | E |
| Longing and lying there swooning and sighing there | E |
| Call to me Scatter our wine on thy tongue | F |
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| Rim of it poisoned with carrion kisses | G |
| Taints the fresh flower and forbiddeth the sun | H |
| Doves never brood where the stirred serpent hisses | I |
| At maddening kisses mysterious blisses | I |
| Over its edges the spiders have spun | H |
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| Fierce wife of Philip her portion hath found in it | A |
| Messaline waits there Aspasia woos | I |
| Helen and Egypt go vested and crowned in it | A |
| Phryne is bound in it Faustine swings round in it | A |
| Crying Come down to us watch us and choose | I |
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| Voices are calling The revel begins with us | I |
| Run thou again in the race of delight | J |
| All the sweet chase and the capturing win with us | I |
| Enter thou in with us gambol and sin with us | I |
| Fleet is the quarry and fair is the flight | J |
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| Ere I could slake at the chalice's wonder | K |
| Lips all a fire for the taste of such bliss | I |
| Rose a great storm sucked the white faces under | K |
| And tore them asunder with fury and thunder | K |
| Crushed the last folly and choked the last kiss | I |
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| Fiercely it flung them and savagely shattered them | L |
| Burst the last breath in a bubble of blood | M |
| Fury and foam of it broke them and battered them | L |
| Scorched them and scattered them tortured and tattered them | L |
| Hurling their limbs in the froth of the flood | M |
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| Perished their promise their beauty forsaken | H |
| Silence alone walked the face of the deep | N |
| The whirlpool was stilled and the surface with snaken | H |
| Small ripples was shaken as if did awaken | H |
| Some sorrowful ghost from the margin of sleep | N |
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| Nothing was left of their beauty and 'plaining | F |
| Left of their magic and spared of their spell | O |
| Only the lip of the dark water staining | F |
| The roses fast waning and only the craning | F |
| Of snakes' heads disturbed by the petals that fell | O |
Muriel Stuart
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