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CHIMES: 5 by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEAUTY'S BODY AND BENISON
Last Line: WITH A BLAST ON EITHER HAND.
Subject(s): ALLITERATIVE VERSE;

Beauty's body and benison
With a bosom-flower new-blown.

Bitter beauty and blessing bann'd
With a breast to burn and brand.

Beauty's bower in the dust o'erblown
With a bare white breast of bone.

Barren beauty and bower of sand
With a blast on either hand.



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