The White Goddess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFGHHHH CCCCHHIJ| All saints revile her and all sober men | A |
| Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean | B |
| In scorn of which we sailed to find her | C |
| In distant regions likeliest to hold her | C |
| Whom we desired above all things to know | D |
| Sister of the mirage and echo | D |
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| It was a virtue not to stay | E |
| To go our headstrong and heroic way | E |
| Seeking her out at the volcano's head | F |
| Among pack ice or where the track had faded | G |
| Beyond the cavern of the seven sleepers | H |
| Whose broad high brow was white as any leper's | H |
| Whose eyes were blue with rowan berry lips | H |
| With hair curled honey coloured to white hips | H |
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| The sap of Spring in the young wood a stir | C |
| Will celebrate with green the Mother | C |
| And every song bird shout awhile for her | C |
| But we are gifted even in November | C |
| Rawest of seasons with so huge a sense | H |
| Of her nakedly worn magnificence | H |
| We forget cruelty and past betrayal | I |
| Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall | J |
Robert Graves
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