Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHH| Beyond her sat a second monster She | A |
| In shape and sense was undisguisedly real | B |
| An ox eyed queen of full fed majesty | A |
| And giant height and comeliness ideal | B |
| She too her tale related as was due | C |
| In measured tones her age her birth her name | D |
| Bourgeois her parents friends of order too | C |
| And good Imperialists of honest fame | D |
| Her age eighteen her height seven feet her waist | E |
| An ell and more in its circumference | F |
| Her leg above the knee and where was placed | E |
| Its point of full development The sense | G |
| Of the rest I lost for laughing half aloud | H |
| Again a woman touched me in the crowd | H |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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