A Woman's Voice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIJI KLK| His head within my bosom lay | A |
| But yet his spirit slipped not through | B |
| I only felt the burning clay | A |
| That withered for the cooling dew | B |
| - | |
| It was but pity when I spoke | C |
| And called him to my heart for rest | D |
| And half a mother's love that woke | C |
| Feeling his head upon my breast | D |
| - | |
| And half the lion's tenderness | E |
| To shield her cubs from hurt or death | F |
| Which when the serried hunters press | G |
| Makes terrible her wounded breath | F |
| - | |
| But when the lips I breathed upon | H |
| Asked for such love as equals claim | I |
| I looked where all the stars were gone | J |
| Burned in the day's immortal flame | I |
| - | |
| 'Come thou like yon great dawn to me | K |
| From darkness vanquished battles done | L |
| Flame unto flame shall flow and be | K |
| Within thy heart and mine as one ' | - |
George William Russell
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