Suspense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBCDEDEDD| A woman's figure on a ground of night | A |
| Inlaid with sallow stars that dimly stare | B |
| Down in the lonesome eyes uplifted there | B |
| As in vague hope some alien lance of light | A |
| Might pierce their woe The tears that blind her sight | A |
| The salt and bitter blood of her despair | B |
| Her hands toss back through torrents of her hair | B |
| And grip toward God with anguish infinite | C |
| And O the carven mouth with all its great | D |
| Intensity of longing frozen fast | E |
| In such a smile as well may designate | D |
| The slowly murdered heart that to the last | E |
| Conceals each newer wound and back at Fate | D |
| Throbs Love's eternal lie Lo I can wait | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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