I Live Within The Stranger's Gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEDFGF A HIHJKJLML A NONPQPRSR G TUTVWV| I | A |
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| I live within the stranger's gate | B |
| And count the hours | C |
| Since God let fall the bolt of fate | B |
| Where the waves fall on yonder shore | D |
| In cloudy spray | E |
| And where the winds forever roar | D |
| The pillars of a mansion stand | F |
| Without a roof | G |
| The saddest ruin in the land | F |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| When sunset strikes across the sea | H |
| The wreck looms up | I |
| Then Memory comes and touches me | H |
| I see a pitiful white face | J |
| Break through the mould | K |
| Decaying at the pillar's base | J |
| And hands that beckon me to prayer | L |
| But I still curse | M |
| And wake the Furies slumbering there | L |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| In the strange drama of the Past | N |
| It was my part | O |
| To hold carousal to the last | N |
| It was for me to hide the shame | P |
| And brave the world | Q |
| With lies about our ancient name | P |
| I played it well and played it long | R |
| But let it pass | S |
| The world has never known the 'wrong | R |
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| IV | G |
| - | |
| Upheave black mould and totter all | T |
| The ruin down | U |
| Fall monumental pillars fall | T |
| Upon her grave Above her breast | V |
| May ivy creep | W |
| And roses blow I choose to rest | V |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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