The Tryst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFFEGHHG IJJIKLLK MNNMOPPO QFFQRSSR FTTUVIIV| Just when all hope had perished in my soul | A |
| And balked desire made havoc with my mind | B |
| My cruel Ladye suddenly grew kind | B |
| And sent those gracious words upon a scroll | A |
| When knowing Night her dusky scarf has tied | C |
| Across the bold intrusive eyes of day | D |
| Come as a glad triumphant lover may | D |
| No longer fearing that he be denied | C |
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| I read her letter for the hundredth time | E |
| And for the hundredth time my gladdened sight | F |
| Blurred with the rapture of my vast delight | F |
| And swooned upon the page I caught the chime | E |
| Of far off bells and at each silver note | G |
| My heart on tiptoe pressed its eager ear | H |
| Against my breast it was such a joy to hear | H |
| The tolling of the hour of which she wrote | G |
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| The curious day still lingered in the skies | I |
| And watched me as I hastened to the tryst | J |
| And back beyond great clouds of amethyst | J |
| I saw Night s soft reassuring eyes | I |
| Oh Night I cried dear Love s considerate friend | K |
| Haste from the far dim valleys of the west | L |
| Rock the sad striving earth to quiet rest | L |
| And bid the day s insistent vigil end | K |
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| Down brooding streets and past the harboured ships | M |
| The Night s young handmaid Twilight walked with me | N |
| A spent moon leaned inertly o er the sea | N |
| A few pale phantom stars were in eclipse | M |
| There was the house My Ladye s sea girt bower | O |
| All draped in gloom save for one taper s glow | P |
| Which lit the path where willing feet would go | P |
| There was the house and this the promised hour | O |
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| The tide was out and from the sea s salt path | Q |
| Rose amorous odours filtering through the night | F |
| And stirring all the senses with delight | F |
| Sweet perfumes left since Aphrodite s bath | Q |
| Back in the wooded copse a whip poor will | R |
| Gave love s impassioned and impatient call | S |
| On pebbled sands I heard the waves kiss fall | S |
| And fall again so hushed the hour and still | R |
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| Light was my knock upon the door so light | F |
| And yet the sound seemed rude My pulses beat | T |
| So loud they drowned out the coming of her feet | T |
| The arrow of her taper pierced the gloom | U |
| The portal closed behind me She was there | V |
| Love on her lips and yielding in her eyes | I |
| And but the sea to hear our vows and sighs | I |
| She took my hand and led me up the stair | V |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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