To Juan At The Winter Solstice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBE FEGHIJ KLGMNG AOPBQR SLTUVW GXYZA2G BB2C2D2CE2| There is one story and one story only | A |
| That will prove worth your telling | B |
| Whether as learned bard or gifted child | C |
| To it all lines or lesser gauds belong | D |
| That startle with their shining | B |
| Such common stories as they stray into | E |
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| Is it of trees you tell their months and virtues | F |
| Or strange beasts that beset you | E |
| Of birds that croak at you the Triple will | G |
| Or of the Zodiac and how slow it turns | H |
| Below the Boreal Crown | I |
| Prison to all true kings that ever reigned | J |
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| Water to water ark again to ark | K |
| From woman back to woman | L |
| So each new victim treads unfalteringly | G |
| The never altered circuit of his fate | M |
| Bringing twelve peers as witness | N |
| Both to his starry rise and starry fall | G |
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| Or is it of the Virgin's silver beauty | A |
| All fish below the thighs | O |
| She in her left hand bears a leafy quince | P |
| When with her right hand she crooks a finger smiling | B |
| How many the King hold back | Q |
| Royally then he barters life for love | R |
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| Or of the undying snake from chaos hatched | S |
| Whose coils contain the ocean | L |
| Into whose chops with naked sword he springs | T |
| Then in black water tangled by the reeds | U |
| Battles three days and nights | V |
| To be spewed up beside her scalloped shore | W |
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| Much snow is falling winds roar hollowly | G |
| The owl hoots from the elder | X |
| Fear in your heart cries to the loving cup | Y |
| Sorrow to sorrow as the sparks fly upward | Z |
| The log groans and confesses | A2 |
| There is one story and one story only | G |
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| Dwell on her graciousness dwell on her smiling | B |
| Do not forget what flowers | B2 |
| The great boar trampled down in ivy time | C2 |
| Her brow was creamy as the crested wave | D2 |
| Her sea blue eyes were wild | C |
| But nothing promised that is not performed | E2 |
Robert Graves
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