The Dark Night Of The Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDECC DDEFDGGFHH IBJKKJBDLFM NNOPI could not love if my thought loved not too | A |
Nor could my body touch the body of you | A |
Unless first in the dark night of the mind | B |
Love had fulfilled what Love had well designed | B |
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Was it in thought or flesh we walked when low | C |
The sun dropped and the white scar on the hill | D |
Sank into the dark trees | E |
Could we indeed so quietly go | C |
Body by body into that heavenly glow | C |
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The elms that rose so vast above the mill | D |
Near leafless were and still | D |
But from the branches with such loud unease | E |
Black flocking starlings mixed their warring cries | F |
That seemed the greater noise of the creaking mill | D |
And every branch and extreme twig was black | G |
With birds that whistled and heard and whistled back | G |
Filling with noise as late with wings the skies | F |
Was it their noise we heard | H |
Or clamour of other thoughts in our quiet mind that stirred | H |
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Then through the climbing hazel hedge new thinned | I |
By the early and rapacious wind | B |
We saw the silver birches gleam with light | J |
Of frozen masts in seas all wild and green | K |
O were they truly trees or some unseen | K |
Thought taking on an image dark and bright | J |
And did those bodies see them or the mind | B |
And did those bodies face once more the hill | D |
To bathe in night or on a darker road | L |
Our spirits unseeing unwearying rise and rise | F |
Where these feet never trod | M |
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From that familiar outer darkness I | N |
Would rise to the inner deeper darker sky | N |
And find you in my spirit or find you not | O |
O never never if not in my thought | P |
John Frederick Freeman
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