The Free Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH CICI G| They bathed in the fire flooded fountains | A |
| Life girdled them round and about | B |
| They slept in the clefts of the mountains | A |
| The stars called them forth with a shout | B |
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| They prayed but their worship was only | C |
| The wonder at nights and at days | D |
| As still as the lips of the lonely | C |
| Though burning with dumbness of praise | D |
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| No sadness of earth ever captured | E |
| Their spirits who bowed at the shrine | F |
| They fled to the Lonely enraptured | E |
| And hid in the Darkness Divine | F |
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| At twilight as children may gather | G |
| They met at the doorway of death | H |
| The smile of the dark hidden Father | G |
| The Mother with magical breath | H |
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| Untold of in song or in story | C |
| In days long forgotten of men | I |
| Their eyes were yet blind with a glory | C |
| Time will not remember again | I |
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| November | G |
George William Russell
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