The Death Of Adonis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEBED FFDDDDGGH| Fragments and combined | A |
| - | |
| This is the lamentation song | B |
| For Adonis woe for Adonis woe | C |
| Thus wailed Aphrodite in anguish throe | D |
| As she strove to hold him back from death | E |
| 'Let thine heart not faint O love Be strong | B |
| O me it burns me thy failing breath | E |
| It kindles through all my being a fire | D |
| My heart is aflame with despairing desire ' | - |
| She calls to her Eros of golden wing | F |
| She bids him steep in the ice cold spring | F |
| Fine linen and lay on Adonis' brow | D |
| 'O love let its coolness revive thee now | D |
| Vain vain his eyes see me no more | D |
| They are fixed in a gaze upon Hades' door | D |
| They close he sleeps not the sleep of the dead | G |
| Hush stir not a pebble with heedless tread | G |
| No no this is death Now remaineth to me | H |
| No sweetness on earth nor honey nor bee ' | - |
Sappho
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