Invocation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CCCC DEED FFFF DGGD AHHA| Whither O my sweet mistress must I follow thee | A |
| For when I hear thy distant footfall nearing | B |
| And wait on thy appearing | B |
| Lo my lips are silent no words come to me | A |
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| Once I waylaid thee in green forest covers | C |
| Hoping that spring might free my lips with gentle fingers | C |
| Alas her presence lingers | C |
| No longer than on the plain the shadow of brown kestrel hovers | C |
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| Through windless ways of the night my spirit followed after | D |
| Cold and remote were they and there possessed | E |
| By a strange unworldly rest | E |
| Awaiting thy still voice heard only starry laughter | D |
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| The pillared halls of sleep echoed my ghostly tread | F |
| Yet when their secret chambers I essayed | F |
| My spirit sank dismayed | F |
| Waking in fear to find the new born vision fled | F |
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| Once indeed but then my spirit bloomed in leafy rapture | D |
| I loved and once I looked death in the eyes | G |
| So suddenly made wise | G |
| Spoke of such beauty as I may never recapture | D |
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| Whither O divine mistress must I then follow thee | A |
| Is it only in love say is it only in death | H |
| That the spirit blossometh | H |
| And words that may match my vision shall come to me | A |
Francis Brett Young
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