Queen Venus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDEDFGGDHHIJIIJK KKIK LLLKLKMMNOMPOKKQQRRP PR| Queen Venus on a day of cloud | A |
| Forsook heaven's argent palaces | B |
| Beneath the roofing vapours bowed | A |
| And sought a promontory loud | A |
| Far in the utmost seas | C |
| There to a caverned shore she made retreat | D |
| Where granite shoulders of the mountain slant | E |
| Down to wet ledges that the waters beat | D |
| Haunted of gull and diving cormorant | F |
| Her garment was of green that deeply glowed | G |
| One foot beneath its fluttering border showed | G |
| As on a rocky solitary seat | D |
| Sitting with both hands clasped about her knee | H |
| She gazed unmoving over restless sea | H |
| Heard not the wild birds scream and circling soar | I |
| Up the black cliffs and round their craggy tops | J |
| But watched the full waves towering toward the shore | I |
| Heaved up and ever falling in dumb roar | I |
| And snowed into a thousand stormy drops | J |
| Gardens of sultry Paphos far away | K |
| Your doves among the strewn rose petals play | K |
| But doves nor roses please her heart to day | K |
| Who child of ocean comes to taste once more | I |
| The sting and splendour of the ocean spray | K |
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| Out of the cold mist curling | L |
| The waters onward hurling | L |
| As if a wizard driving | L |
| A myriad rebel spirits swept them thither | K |
| Mounting despairing crying and ever striving | L |
| Swell toward her feet and in a moment wither | K |
| But idly in the wells of Venus' eyes | M |
| Those perishing proud glories fall and rise | M |
| Like to a mirror where have come and gone | N |
| Faces of pain and passion nor have left | O |
| Of all the abandoned story of their sighs | M |
| An image more than where a moonbeam shone | P |
| She sees she hearkens but of thought bereft | O |
| Her gaze holds neither pity fear nor wonder | K |
| Yet in the exultation and the thunder | K |
| Of those waves moving as to music rolled | Q |
| Wherein their briefness is a tone half told | Q |
| A spirit lives that doth her spirit claim | R |
| Then she remembers how she also came | R |
| From deep moved waters tossing and uptorn | P |
| And 'mid such bitter idle foam was born | P |
| The serene charm that sets the world aflame | R |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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