The Mystic Veil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED CCDED FGFGCDED HIHIJDED| When the shadows take their nightly places | A |
| When departing light is faint and pale | B |
| Then in my chamber gather phantom faces | A |
| Gazing thro' the mystic veil | B |
| One there is with features so familiar | C |
| Glimpse of her give s my pulse a start | D |
| Oh tell me truely is it you love | E |
| Come to cheer my lonly heart | D |
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| Come one step nearer One step nearer | C |
| one shade clearer one shade clearer | C |
| Breath on word before we part before we part | D |
| And tell me truly it is you love | E |
| Come to cheer my lonely heart | D |
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| When my song in lonely notes ascending | F |
| Vainly bids my sadden'd soul rejoin rejoice | G |
| Methinks I hear a murmur'd alto blending | F |
| Is it really your sweet voice | G |
| Answer now if only by a whisper | C |
| Rend the veil the mystic veil apart | D |
| And tell me truely is it you love | E |
| Come to cheer my lonely heart | D |
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| Waking while the denser darkness lingers | H |
| Some one seems to stand beside my bed | I |
| I can but think I feel your fairy fingers | H |
| Softly laid upon my head | I |
| Silently why does the vision vanish | J |
| Dream I yet or is it magic art | D |
| Now tell me truely is it you love | E |
| Come to cheer my lonely heart | D |
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