Penumbra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDDEEEFFGGGHIJJJ KILLLMNOOO| I DID not look upon her eyes | A |
| Though scarcely seen with no surprise | A |
| 'Mid many eyes a single look | B |
| Because they should not gaze rebuke | C |
| At night from stars in sky and brook | B |
| I did not take her by the hand | D |
| Though little was to understand | D |
| From touch of hand all friends might take | E |
| Because it should not prove a flake | E |
| Burnt in my palm to boil and ache | E |
| I did not listen to her voice | F |
| Though none had noted where at choice | F |
| All might rejoice in listening | G |
| Because no such a thing should cling | G |
| In the wood's moan at evening | G |
| I did not cross her shadow once | H |
| Though from the hollow west the sun's | I |
| Last shadow runs along so far | J |
| Because in June it should not bar | J |
| My ways at noon when fevers are | J |
| They told me she was sad that day | K |
| Though wherefore tell what love's soothsay | I |
| Sooner than they did register | L |
| And my heart leapt and wept to her | L |
| And yet I did not speak nor stir | L |
| So shall the tongues of the sea's foam | M |
| Though many voices therewith come | N |
| From drowned hope's home to cry to me | O |
| Bewail one hour the more when sea | O |
| And wind are one with memory | O |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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