The Monochord Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CCDEED| Is it this sky's vast vault or ocean's sound | A |
| That is Life's self and draws my life from me | B |
| And by instinct ineffable decree | B |
| Holds my breath quailing on the bitter bound | A |
| Nay is it Life or Death thus thunder crown'd | A |
| That 'mid the tide of all emergency | B |
| Now notes my separate wave and to what sea | B |
| Its difficult eddies labour in the ground | A |
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| Oh what is this that knows the road I came | C |
| The flame turned cloud the cloud returned to flame | C |
| The lifted shifted steeps and all the way | D |
| That draws round me at last this wind warm space | E |
| And in regenerate rapture turns my face | E |
| Upon the devious coverts of dismay | D |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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