Spectral Lovers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACD EFFEGH AAAAIJ DKKDAA ALLADD ALLAAA| By night they haunted a thicket of April mist | A |
| Out of that black ground suddenly come to birth | B |
| Else angels lost in each other and fallen on earth | B |
| Lovers they knew they were but why unclasped unkissed | A |
| Why should two lovers be frozen apart in fear | C |
| And yet they were they were | D |
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| Over the shredding of an April blossom | E |
| Scarcely her fingers touched him quick with care | F |
| Yet of evasions even she made a snare | F |
| The heart was bold that clanged within her bosom | E |
| The moment perfect the time stopped for them | G |
| Still her face turned from him | H |
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| Strong were the batteries of the April night | A |
| And the stealthy emanations of the field | A |
| Should the walls of her prison undefended yield | A |
| And open her treasure to the first clamorous knight | A |
| This is the mad moon and shall I surrender all | I |
| If he but ask it I shall | J |
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| And gesturing largely to the moon of Easter | D |
| Mincing his steps and swishing the jubilant grass | K |
| Beheading some field flowers that had come to pass | K |
| He had reduced his tributaries faster | D |
| Had not considerations pinched his heart | A |
| Unfitly for his art | A |
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| Do I reel with the sap of April like a drunkard | A |
| Blessed is he that taketh this richest of cities | L |
| But it is so stainless the sack were a thousand pities | L |
| This is that marble fortress not to be conquered | A |
| Lest its white peace in the black flame turn to tinder | D |
| And an unutterable cinder | D |
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| They passed me once in April in the mist | A |
| No other season is it when one walks and discovers | L |
| Two tall and wandering like spectral lovers | L |
| White in the season s moon gold and amethyst | A |
| Who touch quick fingers fluttering like a bird | A |
| Whose songs shall never be heard | A |
John Crowe Ransom
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