Drapple-thorned Aphrodite, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JAJ KLM NOP QRR AST AUV TGW| Dapple throned Aphrodite | A |
| eternal daughterf God | B |
| snare knitter Don't I beg you | C |
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| cow my heart with grief Come | D |
| as once when you heard my far | E |
| off cry and listening stepped | F |
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| from your father's house to your | G |
| gold car to yoke the pair whose | H |
| beautiful thick feathered wings | I |
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| oaring down mid air from heaven | J |
| carried you to light swiftly | A |
| on dark earth then blissful one | J |
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| smiling your immortal smile | K |
| you asked What ailed me now that | L |
| me me call you again What | M |
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| was it that my distracted | N |
| heart most wanted Whom has | O |
| Persuasion to bring round now | P |
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| to your love Who Sappho is | Q |
| unfair to you For let her | R |
| run she will soon run after | R |
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| if she won't accept gifts she | A |
| will one day give them and if | S |
| she won't love you she soon will | T |
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| love although unwillingly | A |
| If ever come now Relieve | U |
| this intolerable pain | V |
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| What my heart most hopes will | T |
| happen make happen you your | G |
| self join forces on my side | W |
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