The Apparition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DCEC FGHG IEJE KHDHGentle angel with your mantle | A |
All of tender green | B |
I was yearning for a vision | C |
Of the life unseen | B |
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When you hovered in the sunset | D |
Just as rain was done | C |
Where the dropping from the poplars | E |
Seemed like rain begun | C |
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There you gathered forming slowly | F |
Rounding into view | G |
All your vesture glowed like verdure | H |
When the sap is new | G |
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Then you mutely gave your warning | I |
And I felt the stress | E |
Of its passion and its presage | J |
And its utterness | E |
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There you swayed one tranquil moment | K |
Mystically fair | H |
Then you were not of the sunset | D |
Were not in the air | H |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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