The Mist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EDF FGHH IJAFKG| I am the mist the impalpable mist | A |
| Back of the thing you seek | B |
| My arms are long | C |
| Long as the reach of time and space | D |
| - | |
| Some toil and toil believing | E |
| Looking now and again on my face | D |
| Catching a vital olden glory | F |
| - | |
| But no one passes me | F |
| I tangle and snare them all | G |
| I am the cause of the Sphinx | H |
| The voiceless baffled patient Sphinx | H |
| - | |
| I was at the first of things | I |
| I will be at the last | J |
| I am the primal mist | A |
| And no man passes me | F |
| My long impalpable arms | K |
| Bar them all | G |
Carl Sandburg
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