The Three Witches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF FGFG EDED FFD| All the moon shed nights are over | A |
| And the days of gray and dun | B |
| There is neither may nor clover | A |
| And the day and night are one | B |
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| Not an hamlet not a city | C |
| Meets our strained and tearless eyes | D |
| In the plain without a pity | C |
| Where the wan grass droops and dies | D |
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| We shall wander through the meaning | E |
| Of a day and see no light | F |
| For our lichened arms are leaning | E |
| On the ends of endless night | F |
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| We the children of Astarte | F |
| Dear abortions of the moon | G |
| In a gay and silent party | F |
| We are riding to you soon | G |
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| Burning ramparts ever burning | E |
| To the flame which never dies | D |
| We are yearning yearning yearning | E |
| With our gay and tearless eyes | D |
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| In the plain without a pity | F |
| Not an hamlet not a city | F |
| Where the wan grass droops and dies | D |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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