By Twilight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABABAB| If we dream that desire of the distance above us | A |
| Should be fettered by fear of the shadows that seem | B |
| If we wake to be nought but to hate or to love us | A |
| If we dream | B |
| Night sinks on the soul and the stars as they gleam | B |
| Speak menace or mourning with tongues to reprove us | A |
| That we deemed of them better than terror may deem | B |
| But if hope may not lure us if fear may not move us | A |
| Thought lightens the darkness wherein the supreme | B |
| Pure presence of death shall assure us and prove us | A |
| If we dream | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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