Eros Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHFF IIJKFFF| Why hast thou nothing in thy face | A |
| Thou idol of the human race | A |
| Thou tyrant of the human heart | B |
| The flower of lovely youth that art | B |
| Yea and that standest in thy youth | C |
| An image of eternal Truth | C |
| With thy exuberant flesh so fair | D |
| That only Pheidias might compare | D |
| Ere from his chaste marmoreal form | E |
| Time had decayed the colours warm | E |
| Like to his gods in thy proud dress | F |
| Thy starry sheen of nakedness | F |
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| Surely thy body is thy mind | G |
| For in thy face is nought to find | G |
| Only thy soft unchristen d smile | H |
| That shadows neither love nor guile | H |
| But shameless will and power immense | F |
| In secret sensuous innocence | F |
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| O king of joy what is thy thought | I |
| I dream thou knowest it is nought | I |
| And wouldst in darkness come but thou | J |
| Makest the light where er thou go | K |
| Ah yet no victim of thy grace | F |
| None who e er long d for thy embrace | F |
| Hath cared to look upon thy face | F |
Robert Seymour Bridges
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