Beauty Accurst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH BJKL GMNM KOPO QROR STST| I am so fair that wheresoe'er I wend | A |
| Men yearn with strange desire to kiss my face | B |
| Stretch out their hands to touch me as I pass | C |
| And women follow me from place to place | B |
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| A poet writing honey of his dear | D |
| Leaves the wet page ah leaves it long to dry | E |
| The bride forgets it is her marriage morn | F |
| The bridegroom too forgets as I go by | E |
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| Within the street where my strange feet shall stray | G |
| All markets hush and traffickers forget | H |
| In my gold head forget their meaner gold | I |
| The poor man grows unmindful of his debt | H |
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| Two lovers kissing in a secret place | B |
| Should I draw nigh will never kiss again | J |
| I come between the king and his desire | K |
| And where I am all loving else is vain | L |
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| Lo when I walk along the woodland way | G |
| Strange creatures leer at me with uncouth love | M |
| And from the grass reach upward to my breast | N |
| And to my mouth lean from the boughs above | M |
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| The sleepy kine move round me in desire | K |
| And press their oozy lips upon my hair | O |
| Toads kiss my feet and creatures of the mire | P |
| The snails will leave their shells to watch me there | O |
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| But all this worship what is it to me | Q |
| I smite the ox and crush the toad in death | R |
| I only know I am so very fair | O |
| And that the world was made to give me breath | R |
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| I only wait the hour when God shall rise | S |
| Up from the star where he so long hath sat | T |
| And bow before the wonder of my eyes | S |
| And set me there I am so fair as that | T |
Richard Le Gallienne
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