Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| Thousands of thousands of hushed years ago | A |
| Out on the edge of Chaos all alone | B |
| I stood on peaks of vapor high upthrown | B |
| Above a sea that knew nor ebb nor flow | A |
| Nor any motion won of winds that blow | A |
| Nor any sound of watery wail or moan | B |
| Nor lisp of wave nor wandering undertone | B |
| Of any tide lost in the night below | A |
| So still it was I mind me as I laid | C |
| My thirsty ear against mine own faint sigh | D |
| To drink of that I sipped it half afraid | C |
| 'Twas but the ghost of a dead voice spilled by | D |
| The one starved star that tottered through the shade | C |
| And came tiptoeing toward me down the sky | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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