White Magic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG EHEH IAJA FKFK| Against the world I closed my heart | A |
| And half in pride and half in fear | B |
| I said to Love and Lust Depart | A |
| None enters here | C |
| - | |
| A gipsy witch has glided in | D |
| She takes her seat beside my fire | E |
| Her eyes are innocent of sin | D |
| Mine of desire | E |
| - | |
| She holds me with an unknown spell | F |
| She folds me in her heart's embrace | G |
| If this be love I cannot tell | F |
| I watch her face | G |
| - | |
| Her sombre eyes are happier | E |
| Than any joy that e'er had voice | H |
| Since I am happiness to her | E |
| I too rejoice | H |
| - | |
| And I have closed the door again | I |
| Against the world I close my heart | A |
| I hold her with my spell in vain | J |
| Would she depart | A |
| - | |
| I hold her with a surer spell | F |
| Beyond her magic and above | K |
| If hers be love I cannot tell | F |
| But mine is love | K |
Arthur Symons
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