Soul's Desire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH EJEJ KLEL EMEM NOPO EQRS EOTO UVEV EWEW EXYX| Her soul is like a wolf that stands | A |
| Where sunlight falls between the trees | B |
| Of a sparse forest's leafless edge | C |
| When Spring's first magic moveth these | B |
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| Her soul is like a little brook | D |
| Thin edged with ice against the leaves | E |
| Where the wolf drinks and is alone | F |
| And where the woodbine interweaves | E |
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| A bank late covered by the snow | G |
| But lighted by the frozen North | H |
| Her soul is like a little plot | I |
| That one white blossom bringeth forth | H |
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| Her soul is slim like silver slips | E |
| And straight like flags beside a stream | J |
| Her soul is like a shape that moves | E |
| And changes in a wonder dream | J |
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| Who would pursue her clasps a cloud | K |
| And taketh sorrow for his zeal | L |
| Memory shall sing him many songs | E |
| While bound upon the torture wheel | L |
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| Her soul is like a wolf that glides | E |
| By moonlight o'er a phantom ridge | M |
| Her face is like a light that runs | E |
| Beneath the shadow of a bridge | M |
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| Her voice is like a woodland cry | N |
| Heard in a summer's desolate hour | O |
| Her eyes are dim her lips are faint | P |
| And tinctured like the cuckoo flower | O |
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| Her little breasts are like the buds | E |
| Of tulips in a place forlorn | Q |
| Her soul is like a mandrake bloom | R |
| Standing against the crimson moon | S |
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| Her dream is like the fenny snake's | E |
| That warms him in the noonday's fire | O |
| She hath no thought nor any hope | T |
| Save of herself and her desire | O |
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| She is not life she is not death | U |
| She is not fear or joy or grief | V |
| Her soul is like a quiet sea | E |
| Beneath a ruin haunted reef | V |
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| She is the shape the sailor sees | E |
| That slips the rock without a sound | W |
| She is the soul that comes and goes | E |
| And leaves no mark yet makes a wound | W |
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| She is the soul that hunts and flies | E |
| She is a world wide mist of care | X |
| She is the restlessness of life | Y |
| Its rapture and despair | X |
Edgar Lee Masters
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