Haschisch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCDDC EEFFE GHIIH| Behind the door beyond the light | A |
| Who is it waits there in the night | A |
| When he has entered he will stand | B |
| Imposing with his silent hand | B |
| Some silent thing upon the night | A |
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| Behold the image of my fear | C |
| O rise not move not come not near | C |
| That moment when you turned your face | D |
| A demon seemed to leap through space | D |
| His gesture strangled me with fear | C |
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| And yet I am the lord of all | E |
| And this brave world magnifical | E |
| Veiled in so variable a mist | F |
| It may be rose or amethyst | F |
| Demands me for the lord of all | E |
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| Who said the world is but a mood | G |
| In the eternal thought of God | H |
| I know it real though it seem | I |
| The phantom of a haschisch dream | I |
| In that insomnia which is God | H |
Arthur Symons
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