The Caves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FGHH IIJK LLMM NNBB| Like the tide knocking at the hollowed cliff | A |
| And running into each green cave as if | A |
| In the cave's night to keep | B |
| Eternal motion grave and deep | B |
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| That even while each broken wave repeats | C |
| Its answered knocking and with bruised hand beats | C |
| Again again again | D |
| Tossed between ecstasy and pain | E |
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| Still in the folded hollow darkness swells | F |
| Sinks swells and every green hung hollow fills | G |
| Till there's no room for sound | H |
| Save that old anger rolled around | H |
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| So into every hollow cliff of life | I |
| Into this heart's deep cave so loud with strife | I |
| In tunnels I knew not | J |
| In lightless labyrinths of thought | K |
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| The unresting tide has run and the dark filled | L |
| Even the vibration of old strife is stilled | L |
| The wave returning bears | M |
| Muted those time breathing airs | M |
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| How shall the million footed tide still tread | N |
| These hollows and in each cold void cave spread | N |
| How shall Love here keep | B |
| Eternal motion grave and deep | B |
John Frederick Freeman
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