Delilah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFGFG AHAHDIDI JKHKHLHL JBJBMNMNIn the midnight of darkness and terror | A |
When I would grope nearer to God | B |
With my back to a record of error | A |
And the highway of sin I have trod | B |
There comes to me shapes I would banish | C |
The shapes of the deeds I have done | D |
And I pray and I plead till they vanish | C |
All vanish and leave me save one | D |
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That one with a smile like the splendour | A |
Of the sun in the middle day skies | E |
That one with a spell that is tender | A |
That one with a dream in her eyes | E |
Cometh close in her rare southern beauty | F |
Her languor her indolent grace | G |
And my soul turns its back on its duty | F |
To live in the light of her face | G |
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She touches my cheek and I quiver | A |
I tremble with exquisite pains | H |
She sighs like an overcharged river | A |
My blood rushes on through my veins | H |
She smiles and in mad tiger fashion | D |
As a she tiger fondles her own | I |
I clasp her with fierceness and passion | D |
And kiss her with shudder and groan | I |
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Once more in our love s sweet beginning | J |
I put away God and the World | K |
Once more in the joys of our sinnings | H |
Are the hopes of eternity hurled | K |
There is nothing my soul lacks or misses | H |
As I clasp the dream shape to my breast | L |
In the passion and pain of her kisses | H |
Life blooms to its richest and best | L |
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O ghost of dead sin unrelenting | J |
Go back to the dust and the sod | B |
Too dear and too sweet for repenting | J |
Ye stand between me and my God | B |
If I by the Throne should behold you | M |
Smiling up with those eyes loved so well | N |
Close close in my arms I would fold you | M |
And dropp with you down to sweet Hell | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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