The White Witch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB DCECFC GAHAIA FCJCKC LMNMOM PALAQA RSMSTS UVWVCV CXYXZX ABABAB| O brothers mine take care Take care | A |
| The great white witch rides out to night | B |
| Trust not your prowess nor your strength | C |
| Your only safety lies in flight | B |
| For in her glance there is a snare | A |
| And in her smile there is a blight | B |
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| The great white witch you have not seen | D |
| Then younger brothers mine forsooth | C |
| Like nursery children you have looked | E |
| For ancient hag and snaggled tooth | C |
| But no not so the witch appears | F |
| In all the glowing charms of youth | C |
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| Her lips are like carnations red | G |
| Her face like new born lilies fair | A |
| Her eyes like ocean waters blue | H |
| She moves with subtle grace and air | A |
| And all about her head there floats | I |
| The golden glory of her hair | A |
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| But though she always thus appears | F |
| In form of youth and mood of mirth | C |
| Unnumbered centuries are hers | J |
| The infant planets saw her birth | C |
| The child of throbbing Life is she | K |
| Twin sister to the greedy earth | C |
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| And back behind those smiling lips | L |
| And down within those laughing eyes | M |
| And underneath the soft caress | N |
| Of hand and voice and purring sighs | M |
| The shadow of the panther lurks | O |
| The spirit of the vampire lies | M |
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| For I have seen the great white witch | P |
| And she has led me to her lair | A |
| And I have kissed her red red lips | L |
| And cruel face so white and fair | A |
| Around me she has twined her arms | Q |
| And bound me with her yellow hair | A |
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| I felt those red lips burn and sear | R |
| My body like a living coal | S |
| Obeyed the power of those eyes | M |
| As the needle trembles to the pole | S |
| And did not care although I felt | T |
| The strength go ebbing from my soul | S |
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| Oh she has seen your strong young limbs | U |
| And heard your laughter loud and gay | V |
| And in your voices she has caught | W |
| The echo of a far off day | V |
| When man was closer to the earth | C |
| And she has marked you for her prey | V |
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| She feels the old Antaean strength | C |
| In you the great dynamic beat | X |
| Of primal passions and she sees | Y |
| In you the last besieged retreat | X |
| Of love relentless lusty fierce | Z |
| Love pain ecstatic cruel sweet | X |
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| O brothers mine take care Take care | A |
| The great white witch rides out to night | B |
| O younger brothers mine beware | A |
| Look not upon her beauty bright | B |
| For in her glance there is a snare | A |
| And in her smile there is a blight | B |
James Weldon Johnson
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