To The Lake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EFGHII JJKKK LLMMII| In spring of youth it was my lot | A |
| To haunt of the wide world 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 towered around | D |
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| But when the Night had thrown her pall | E |
| Upon that spot as upon all | F |
| And the mystic wind went by | G |
| Murmuring in melody | H |
| Then ah then I would awake | I |
| To the terror of the lone lake | I |
| - | |
| Yet that terror was not fright | J |
| But a tremulous delight | J |
| A feeling not the jewelled mine | K |
| Could teach or bribe me to define | K |
| Nor Love although the Love were thine | K |
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| Death was in that poisonous wave | L |
| And in its gulf a fitting grave | L |
| For him who thence could solace bring | M |
| To his lone imagining | M |
| Whose solitary soul could make | I |
| An Eden of that dim lake | I |
Edgar Allan Poe
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