Love The Vampire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFG AAHIIH FFJKKJ LLMNNM| The level sands and grey | A |
| Stretch leagues and leagues away | A |
| Down to the border line of sky and foam | B |
| A spark of sunset burns | C |
| The grey tide water turns | C |
| Back like a ghost from her forbidden home | B |
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| Here without pyre or bier | D |
| Light Love was buried here | D |
| Alas his grave was wide and deep enough | E |
| Thrice with averted head | F |
| We cast dust on the dead | F |
| And left him to his rest An end of Love | G |
| - | |
| No stone to roll away | A |
| No seal of snow or clay | A |
| Only soft dust above his wearied eyes | H |
| But though the sudden sound | I |
| Of Doom should shake the ground | I |
| And graves give up their ghosts he will not rise | H |
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| So each to each we said | F |
| Ah but to either bed | F |
| Set far apart in lands of North and South | J |
| Love as a Vampire came | K |
| With haggard eyes aflame | K |
| And kissed us with the kisses of his mouth | J |
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| Thenceforth in dreams must we | L |
| Each other's shadow see | L |
| Wand'ring unsatisfied in empty lands | M |
| Still the desired face | N |
| Fleets from the vain embrace | N |
| And still the shape evades the longing hands | M |
Andrew Lang
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