Delilah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFGFG AHAHDIDI JKHKHLHL JBJBMNMN| In 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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