The Barrier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JEFEIn the desire of welded lips | A |
Of heart on prone tumultuous heart | B |
Abides no stronger thing than this | C |
Dread love that keeps our lips apart | B |
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Between us lies an ancient fear | D |
Before me in thy troubled eyes | E |
A shadow flees as flees the nymph | F |
Tremulous with the faun's surprise | E |
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Hard silence like a stifling hand | G |
Withholds the word we fain would say | H |
Over us lies the dreamt caress | I |
Transfix d with a dear dismay | H |
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When shall the passion of the faun | J |
Resistless in my heart arise | E |
And take the warm and trembling nymph | F |
That flees within thy startled eyes | E |
Clark Ashton Smith
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