An Invite, To Eternity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBB DEDEBBFF BBGGBBHH| Wilt thou go with me sweet maid | A |
| Say maiden wilt thou go with me | B |
| Through the valley depths of shade | A |
| Of night and dark obscurity | B |
| Where the path has lost its way | C |
| Where the sun forgets the day | C |
| Where there's nor life nor light to see | B |
| Sweet maiden wilt thou go with me | B |
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| Where stones will turn to flooding streams | D |
| Where plains will rise like ocean waves | E |
| Where life will fade like visioned dreams | D |
| And mountains darken into caves | E |
| Say maiden wilt thou go with me | B |
| Through this sad non identity | B |
| Where parents live and are forgot | F |
| And sisters live and know us not | F |
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| Say maiden wilt thou go with me | B |
| In this strange death of life to be | B |
| To live in death and be the same | G |
| Without this life or home or name | G |
| At once to be and not to be | B |
| That was and is not yet to see | B |
| Things pass like shadows and the sky | H |
| Above below around us lie | H |
John Clare
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