The Pale Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCCBB DEEDDA | |
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I spoke to the pale and heavy lidded woman and said | B |
O pale and heavy lidded woman why is your cheek | C |
Pale as the dead and what are your eyes afraid lest they speak | C |
And the woman answered me I am pale as the dead | B |
For the dead have loved me and I dream of the dead | B |
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But I see in the eyes of the living as a living fire | D |
The thing that my soul in triumph tells me I have forgot | E |
And therefore mine eyelids are heavy and I raise them not | E |
For always I see in the eyes of men the old desire | D |
And I fear lest they see that I desire their desire | D |
Arthur Symons
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