Prayer To Our Lady Of Paphos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JAJ KLM NOP QRR AST UV TGW XYDapple throned Aphrodite | A |
eternal daughter of 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 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 '' | - |
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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Sappho | X |
tr Barnard | Y |
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