On A Palmetto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDEE| Through all that year scarred agony of height | A |
| Unblest of bough or bloom to where expands | B |
| His wandy circlet with his bladed bands | B |
| Dividing every wind or loud or light | A |
| To termless hymns of love and old despite | A |
| Yon tall palmetto in the twilight stands | B |
| Bare Dante of these purgatorial sands | B |
| That glimmer marginal to the monstrous night | A |
| Comes him a Southwind from the scented vine | C |
| It breathes of Beatrice through all his blades | D |
| North East or West Guelph wind or Ghibelline | C |
| 'Tis shredded into music down the shades | D |
| All sea breaths land breaths systol diastol | E |
| Sway minstrels of that grief melodious Soul | E |
Sidney Lanier
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