Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxiv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHH| Thus through these griefs I had been set apart | A |
| As for a double priesthood Life to me | B |
| In those first moments when I probed my heart | A |
| Less an enchantress seemed than enemy | B |
| My knowledge of the world had nothing human | C |
| I saw Mankind a tribe my natural foe | D |
| Whom I must one day battle with and Woman | C |
| Ah Woman was a snare I did not know | D |
| Indeed it may be that already hope | E |
| Knocked at my soul with tales it dared not own | F |
| Of woman's kindness in my horoscope | E |
| Man only Man I feared with eyes bent down | G |
| Man the oppressor who with pale lips curled | H |
| Sheds blood in the high places of the world | H |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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