Mother And Sphinx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBCDEDDE BFBBFGHIGH JKJJKEBEEB GBIGBLHLMHEGYPTIAN FOLK SONG | A |
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Grim is the face that looks into the night | B |
Over the stretch of sands | C |
A sullen rock in a sea of white | B |
A ghostly shadow in ghostly light | B |
Peering and moaning it stands | C |
Oh is it the king that rides this way | D |
Oh is it the king that rides so free | E |
I have looked for the king this many a day | D |
But the years that mock me will not say | D |
Why tarrieth he | E |
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'T is not your king that shall ride to night | B |
But a child that is fast asleep | F |
And the horse he shall ride is the Dream horse white | B |
Aha he shall speed through the ghostly light | B |
Where the ghostly shadows creep | F |
My eyes are dull and my face is sere | G |
Yet unto the word he gave I cling | H |
For he was a Pharaoh that set me here | I |
And lo I have waited this many a year | G |
For him my king | H |
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Oh past thy face my darling shall ride | J |
Swift as the burning winds that bear | K |
The sand clouds over the desert wide | J |
Swift to the verdure and palms beside | J |
The wells off there | K |
And is it the mighty king I shall see | E |
Come riding into the night | B |
Oh is it the king come back to me | E |
Proudly and fiercely rideth he | E |
With centuries dight | B |
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I know no king but my dark eyed dear | G |
That shall ride the Dream Horse white | B |
But see he wakes at my bosom here | I |
While the Dream Horse frettingly lingers near | G |
To speed with my babe to night | B |
And out of the desert darkness peers | L |
A ghostly ghastly shadowy thing | H |
Like a spirit come out of the mouldering years | L |
And ever that waiting spectre hears | M |
The coming king | H |
Eugene Field
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