Reminded Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEEEEGGHH FFFFEEE IIEJEKKJBeneath my window twilight made | A |
Familiar mysteries of shade | A |
Faint voices from the darkening down | B |
Were calling vaguely to the town | B |
Intent upon a low far gleam | C |
That burned upon the world's extreme | C |
I sat with short reprieve from grief | D |
And turned the volume leaf by leaf | D |
Wherein a hand long dead had wrought | E |
A million miracles of thought | E |
My fingers carelessly unclung | F |
The lettered pages and among | F |
Them wandered witless nor divined | E |
The wealth in which poor fools they mined | E |
The soul that should have led their quest | E |
Was dreaming in the level west | E |
Where a tall tower stark and still | G |
Uplifted on a distant hill | G |
Stood lone and passionless to claim | H |
Its guardian star's returning flame | H |
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I know not how my dream was broke | F |
But suddenly my spirit woke | F |
Filled with a foolish fear to look | F |
Upon the hand that clove the book | F |
Significantly pointing next | E |
I bent attentive to the text | E |
And read and as I read grew old | E |
The mindless words 'Poor Tom's a cold ' | - |
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Ah me to what a subtle touch | I |
The brimming cup resigns its clutch | I |
Upon the wine Dear God is 't writ | E |
That hearts their overburden bear | J |
Of bitterness though thou permit | E |
The pranks of Chance alurk in nooks | K |
And striking coward blows from books | K |
And dead hands reaching everywhere | J |
Ambrose Bierce
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