All Souls' Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KBLD EFMF NOPO QRSR TUMU EOVO WDMB| I cried all night to you | A |
| I called till day was here | B |
| Perhaps you could not come | C |
| Or were too tir d dear | D |
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| Your chair I set by mine | E |
| I made the dim hearth glow | F |
| I whispered When he comes | G |
| I shall not let him go | F |
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| I closed the shutters tight | H |
| I feared the dawn of day | I |
| I stopped the busy clock | J |
| That timed your hours away | I |
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| Loud howled my neighbour's dog | K |
| O glad was I to hear | B |
| The dead are going by | L |
| Now you will come my dear | D |
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| To take the chair by mine | E |
| Until the cock would crow | F |
| O if it be you came | M |
| And could not let me know | F |
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| For once a shadow passed | N |
| Behind me in the room | O |
| I thought your loving eyes | P |
| Would meet mine in the gloom | O |
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| And once I thought I heard | Q |
| A footstep by my chair | R |
| I raised my eager hands | S |
| But no sweet ghost was there | R |
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| We were too wide apart | T |
| You in your spirit land | U |
| I knew not when you came | M |
| I could not understand | U |
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| Your eyes perhaps met mine | E |
| Reproached me through the gloom | O |
| Alas for me alone | V |
| The empty empty room | O |
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| The dead were passing home | W |
| The cock crew loud and clear | D |
| Mavourneen if you came | M |
| I knew not you were here | B |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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