Song Of Renunciation, A Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCD DE FGFGFDFD HIHIJKJK FEFELMLM N NCOPMP HMHMMQMQ RSRSSMSM MSMSMLMQ NMNMMMMMAFTER A C S | A |
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In the days of my season of salad | B |
When the down was as dew on my cheek | C |
And for French I was bred on the ballad | B |
For Greek on the writers of Greek | C |
Then I sang of the rose that is ruddy | D |
Of 'pleasure that winces and stings ' | - |
Of white women and wine that is bloody | D |
And similar things | E |
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Of Delight that is dear as Desi er | F |
And Desire that is dear as Delight | G |
Of the fangs of the flame that is fi er | F |
Of the bruises of kisses that bite | G |
Of embraces that clasp and that sever | F |
Of blushes that flutter and flee | D |
Round the limbs of Dolores whoever | F |
Dolores may be | D |
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I sang of false faith that is fleeting | H |
As froth of the swallowing seas | I |
Time's curse that is fatal as Keating | H |
Is fatal to amorous fleas | I |
Of the wanness of woe that is whelp of | J |
The lust that is blind as a bat | K |
By the help of my Muse and the help of | J |
The relative THAT | K |
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Panatheist bruiser and breaker | F |
Of kings and the creatures of kings | E |
I shouted on Freedom to shake her | F |
Feet loose of the fetter that clings | E |
Far rolling my ravenous red eye | L |
And lifting a mutinous lid | M |
To all monarchs and matrons I said I | L |
Would shock them and did | M |
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Thee I sang and thy loves O Thalassian | N |
O 'noble and nude and antique ' | - |
Unashamed in the 'fearless old fashion' | N |
Ere washing was done by the week | C |
When the 'roses and rapture' that girt you | O |
Were visions of delicate vice | P |
And the 'lilies and languors of virtue' | M |
Not nearly so nice | P |
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O delights of the time of my teething | H |
Felise Fragoletta Yolande | M |
Foam yeast of a youth in its seething | H |
On blasted and blithering sand | M |
Snake crowned on your tresses and belted | M |
With blossoms that coil and decay | Q |
Ye are gone ye are lost ye are melted | M |
Like ices in May | Q |
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Hushed now is the bibulous bubble | R |
Of 'lithe and lascivious' throats | S |
Long stript and extinct is the stubble | R |
Of hoary and harvested oats | S |
From the sweets that are sour as the sorrel's | S |
The bees have abortively swarmed | M |
And Algernon's earlier morals | S |
Are fairly reformed | M |
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I have written a loyal Armada | M |
And posed in a Jubilee pose | S |
I have babbled of babies and played a | M |
New tune on the turn of their toes | S |
Washed white from the stain of Astarte | M |
My books any virgin may buy | L |
And I hear I am praised by a party | M |
Called Something Mackay | Q |
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When erased are the records and rotten | N |
The meshes of memory's net | M |
When the grace that forgives has forgotten | N |
The things that are good to forget | M |
When the trill of my juvenile trumpet | M |
Is dead and its echoes are dead | M |
Then the laurel shall lie on the crumpet | M |
And crown of my head | M |
Owen Seaman
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