The Lake - Early Version Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGHIIJJKKLLMM II| In youth's spring it was my lot | A |
| To haunt of the wide earth a spot | A |
| The which I could not love the less | B |
| So lovely was the loneliness | C |
| Of a wild lake with black rock bound | D |
| And the tall pines that tower'd around | D |
| But when the night had thrown her pall | E |
| Upon that spot as upon all | F |
| And the wind would pass me by | G |
| In its stilly melody | H |
| My infant spirit would awake | I |
| To the terror of the lone lake | I |
| Yet that terror was not fright | J |
| But a tremulous delight | J |
| And a feeling undefin'd | K |
| Springing from a darken'd mind | K |
| Death was in that poison'd wave | L |
| And in its gulf a fitting grave | L |
| For him who thence could solace bring | M |
| To his dark imagining | M |
| Whose wild'ring thought could even make | I |
| An Eden of that dim lake | I |
Edgar Allan Poe
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