The Obscure Night Of The Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB ACACB DEDEE FEGEE HEHEE EGEGI JEJEE EKEKL| Upon an obscure night | A |
| Fevered with love in love's anxiety | B |
| O hapless happy plight | A |
| I went none seeing me | B |
| Forth from my house where all things quiet be | B |
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| By night secure from sight | A |
| And by the secret stair disguisedly | C |
| O hapless happy plight | A |
| By night and privily | C |
| Forth from my house where all things quiet be | B |
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| Blest night of wandering | D |
| In secret where by none might I be spied | E |
| Nor I see anything | D |
| Without a light or guide | E |
| Save that which in my heart burnt in my side | E |
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| That light did lead me on | F |
| More surely than the shining of noontide | E |
| Where well I knew that one | G |
| Did for my coming bide | E |
| Where he abode might none but he abide | E |
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| O night that didst lead thus | H |
| O night more lovely than the dawn of light | E |
| O night that broughtest us | H |
| Lover to lover's sight | E |
| Lover with loved in marriage of delight | E |
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| Upon my flowery breast | E |
| Wholly for him and save himself for none | G |
| There did I give sweet rest | E |
| To my beloved one | G |
| The fanning of the cedars breathed thereon | I |
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| When the first moving air | J |
| Blew from the tower and waved his locks aside | E |
| His hand with gentle care | J |
| Did wound me in the side | E |
| And in my body all my senses died | E |
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| All things I then forgot | E |
| My cheek on him who for my coming came | K |
| All ceased and I was not | E |
| Leaving my cares and shame | K |
| Among the lilies and forgetting them | L |
Arthur Symons
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