Rainy Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LKLK MNMN DOEO| Ghosts of all my lovely sins | A |
| Who attend too well my pillow | B |
| Gay the wanton rain begins | A |
| Hide the limp and tearful willow | B |
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| Turn aside your eyes and ears | C |
| Trail away your robes of sorrow | B |
| You shall have my further years | C |
| You shall walk with me tomorrow | B |
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| I am sister to the rain | D |
| Fey and sudden and unholy | E |
| Petulant at the windowpane | D |
| Quickly lost remembered slowly | E |
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| I have lived with shades a shade | F |
| I am hung with graveyard flowers | G |
| Let me be tonight arrayed | F |
| In the silver of the showers | G |
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| Every fragile thing shall rust | H |
| When another April passes | I |
| I may be a furry dust | H |
| Sifting through the brittle grasses | I |
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| All sweet sins shall be forgot | J |
| Who will live to tell their siring | K |
| Hear me now nor let me rot | J |
| Wistful still and still aspiring | K |
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| Ghosts of dear temptations heed | L |
| I am frail be you forgiving | K |
| See you not that I have need | L |
| To be living with the living | K |
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| Sail tonight the Styx's breast | M |
| Glide among the dim processions | N |
| Of the exquisite unblest | M |
| Spirits of my shared transgressions | N |
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| Roam with young Persephone | D |
| Plucking poppies for your slumber | O |
| With the morrow there shall be | E |
| One more wraith among your number | O |
Dorothy Parker
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