Quatrains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC D EFEF G HIJI K LLMM N OPQR S TUTU V WAXA Y ZZA2A2| The Sky Line | A |
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| Like black fangs in a cruel ogre's jaw | B |
| The grim piles lift against the sunset sky | C |
| Down drops the night and shuts the horrid maw | B |
| I listen breathless but there comes no cry | C |
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| Defeat | D |
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| He sits and looks into the west | E |
| Where twilight gathers wan and gray | F |
| A knight who quit the Golden Quest | E |
| And flung Excalibur away | F |
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| To an Amazon | G |
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| O twain in spirit we shall know | H |
| Thy like no more so fierce so mild | I |
| One breast shorn clean to rest the bow | J |
| One milk full for thy warrior child | I |
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| The Old Mother | K |
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| Life is like an old mother whom trouble and toil | L |
| Have sufficed the best part of her nature to spoil | L |
| Whom her children the Passions so worry and vex | M |
| That the good are forgot while the evil perplex | M |
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| The Call | N |
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| When the north wind riding o'er the uplands | O |
| Shouted to the red leaves I am Death | P |
| Was it fear that sent them all a flying | Q |
| Sighing flying o'er the withered heath | R |
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| Life | S |
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| Life is just a web of doubt | T |
| Where with iridescent gleams | U |
| Flickers in or struggles out | T |
| Love the golden moth of dreams | U |
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| Revelation | V |
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| I called your name Man in the Grave | W |
| And straight her lips grew cold on mine | A |
| And then I knew although I have | X |
| Her hand her heart and soul are thine | A |
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| Tears of Men | Y |
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| Men shed their blood for honor or renown | Z |
| For freedom's sake to nameless graves go down | Z |
| But there's one cause alone 'neath heaven above | A2 |
| For which they shed their tears and that is Love | A2 |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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