![]() The initial line quoted here, "bright", rhymes with "night" a full seven lines earlier.īut when the noon waxed bright Her hair grew thin and grey She dwindled, as the fair full moon doth turn To swift decay, and burn Her fire away. The lines below show the varied stress patterns, as well as an interior rhyme (grey/decay) picked up by the end-rhyme with "away". The metre is also irregular, typically (though not always) keeping four or five stresses, in varying feet, per line. The poem uses an irregular rhyme scheme, often using couplets or ABAB rhymes, but also repeating some rhymes many times in succession, or allowing long gaps between a word and its partner. ![]() However, in public Rossetti often stated that the poem was intended for children, and went on to write many children's poems. ![]() In a letter to her publisher, Rossetti claimed that the poem, which features remarkably sexual imagery, was not meant for children. When the poem appeared in her debut collection of poetry, Goblin Market, and other poems, it was illustrated by her brother, Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ![]() The poem was composed in April 1859, and published in 1862. ![]()
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