To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABACAC DEEDEEDEDE ABBABBACAC FGGFGFGFG HIIJIHIIHIH AFFA AFAFF DFFDFFDFDF AKKFKKA K ABBABCCBCACA| The skies they were ashen and sober | A |
| The leaves they were crisped and sere | B |
| The leaves they were withering and sere | B |
| It was night in the lonesome October | A |
| Of my most immemorial year | B |
| It was hard by the dim lake of Auber | A |
| In the misty mid region of Weir | C |
| It was down by the dank tarn of Auber | A |
| In the ghoul haunted woodland of Weir | C |
| - | |
| Here once through an alley Titanic | D |
| Of cypress I roamed with my Soul | E |
| Of cypress with Psyche my Soul | E |
| There were days when my heart was volcanic | D |
| As the scoriac rivers that roll | E |
| As the lavas that restlessly roll | E |
| Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek | D |
| In the ultimate climes of the pole | E |
| That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek | D |
| In the realms of the boreal pole | E |
| - | |
| Our talk had been serious and sober | A |
| But our thoughts they were palsied and sere | B |
| Our memories were treacherous and sere | B |
| For we knew not the month was October | A |
| And we marked not the night of the year | B |
| Ah night of all nights in the year | B |
| We noted not the dim lake of Auber | A |
| Though once we had journeyed down here | C |
| Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber | A |
| Nor the ghoul haunted woodland of Weir | C |
| - | |
| And now as the night was senescent | F |
| And star dials pointed to morn | G |
| As the star dials hinted of morn | G |
| At the end of our path a liquescent | F |
| And nebulous lustre was born | G |
| Out of which a miraculous crescent | F |
| Arose with a duplicate horn | G |
| Astarte's bediamonded crescent | F |
| Distinct with its duplicate horn | G |
| - | |
| And I said 'She is warmer than Dian | H |
| She rolls through an ether of sighs | I |
| She revels in a region of sighs | I |
| She has seen that the tears are not dry on | J |
| These cheeks where the worm never dies | I |
| And has come past the stars of the Lion | H |
| To point us the path to the skies | I |
| To the Lethean peace of the skies | I |
| Come up in despite of the Lion | H |
| To shine on us with her bright eyes | I |
| Come up through the lair of the Lion | H |
| With love in her luminous eyes ' | - |
| - | |
| But Psyche uplifting her finger | A |
| Said 'Sadly this star I mistrust | F |
| Her pallor I strangely mistrust | F |
| Oh hasten oh let us not linger | A |
| Oh fly let us fly for we must ' | - |
| In terror she spoke letting sink her | A |
| Wings until they trailed in the dust | F |
| In agony sobbed letting sink her | A |
| Plumes till they trailed in the dust | F |
| Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust | F |
| - | |
| I replied 'This is nothing but dreaming | D |
| Let us on by this tremulous light | F |
| Let us bathe in this crystalline light | F |
| Its Sybilic splendor is beaming | D |
| With Hope and in Beauty to night | F |
| See it flickers up the sky through the night | F |
| Ah we safely may trust to its gleaming | D |
| And be sure it will lead us aright | F |
| We safely may trust to a gleaming | D |
| That cannot but guide us aright | F |
| Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night ' | - |
| - | |
| Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her | A |
| And tempted her out of her gloom | K |
| And conquered her scruples and gloom | K |
| And we passed to the end of the vista | F |
| But were stopped by the door of a tomb | K |
| By the door of a legended tomb | K |
| And I said 'What is written sweet sister | A |
| On the door of this legended tomb ' | - |
| She replied 'Ulalume Ulalume | K |
| 'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume ' | - |
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| Then my heart it grew ashen and sober | A |
| As the leaves that were crisped and sere | B |
| As the leaves that were withering and sere | B |
| And I cried 'It was surely October | A |
| On this very night of last year | B |
| That I journeyed I journeyed down here | C |
| That I brought a dread burden down here | C |
| On this night of all nights in the year | B |
| Ah what demon has tempted me here | C |
| Well I know now this dim lake of Auber | A |
| This misty mid region of Weir | C |
| Well I know now this dank tarn of Auber | A |
| This ghoul haunted woodland of Weir ' | - |
Edgar Allan Poe
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