Lilith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABBCDCCDD EFEEFF GHGIHH IEGIEE JKJJKK EDEEDD EEEEEE LELLEE| Strange is the song and the soul that is singing | A |
| Falters because of the vision it sees | B |
| Voice that is not of the living is ringing | A |
| Down in the depths where the darkness is clinging | A |
| Even when Noon is the lord of the leas | B |
| Fast like a curse to the ghosts of the trees | B |
| Here in a mist that is parted in sunder | C |
| Half with the darkness and half with the day | D |
| Face of a woman but face of a wonder | C |
| Vivid and wild as a flame of the thunder | C |
| Flashes and fades and the wail of the grey | D |
| Water is loud on the straits of the bay | D |
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| Father whose years have been many and weary | E |
| Elder whose life is as lovely as light | F |
| Shining in ways that are sterile and dreary | E |
| Tell me the name of this beautiful peri | E |
| Flashing on me like the wonderful white | F |
| Star at the meeting of morning and night | F |
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| Look to thy Saviour and down on thy knee man | G |
| Lean on the Lord as the Zebedee leaned | H |
| Daughter of hell is the neighbour of thee man | G |
| Lilith of Adam the luminous leman | I |
| Turn to the Christ to be succoured and screened | H |
| Saved from the eyes of a marvellous fiend | H |
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| Serpent she is in the shape of a woman | I |
| Brighter than woman ineffably fair | E |
| Shelter thyself from the splendour and sue man | G |
| Light that was never a loveliness human | I |
| Lives in the face of this sinister snare | E |
| Longing to strangle thy soul with her hair | E |
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| Lilith who came to the father and bound him | J |
| Fast with her eyes in the first of the springs | K |
| Lilith she is but remember she drowned him | J |
| Shedding her flood of gold tresses around him | J |
| Lulled him to sleep with the lyric she sings | K |
| Melody strange with unspeakable things | K |
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| Low is her voice but beware of it ever | E |
| Swift bitter death is the fruit of delay | D |
| Never was song of its beauty ah never | E |
| Heard on the mountain or meadow or river | E |
| Not of the night is it not of the day | D |
| Fly from it stranger away and away | D |
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| Back on the hills are the blossom and feather | E |
| Glory of noon is on valley and spire | E |
| Here is the grace of magnificent weather | E |
| Where is the woman from gulfs of the nether | E |
| Where is the fiend with the face of desire | E |
| Gone with a cry in miraculous fire | E |
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| Sound that was not of this world or the spacious | L |
| Splendid blue heaven has passed from the lea | E |
| Dead is the voice of the devil audacious | L |
| Only a dream is her music fallacious | L |
| Here in the song and the shadow of tree | E |
| Down by the green and the gold of the sea | E |
Henry Kendall
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