The Call Of The Blood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE DFDG HBHB ABAB| Over the water the shadows are creeping | A |
| Lost are the lights on Bellagio's shore | B |
| Goddess and Faun in the garden are sleeping | A |
| Only the fountain sings on as before | B |
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| Low as its murmur when daintily falling | A |
| Sweet as its plaintive mellifluous song | C |
| Voices of absent ones seem to be calling | A |
| Come to us Come thou hast waited too long | C |
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| Vainly I call it a childish delusion | D |
| Vainly attempt to regard it with mirth | E |
| Still do I hear in my spirit's seclusion | D |
| Voices I loved in the land of my birth | E |
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| Ever recurrent like tides of the ocean | D |
| Sad are these cadences reaching my ear | F |
| Waking within me a mingled emotion | D |
| Partly of ecstasy partly of fear | G |
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| For of the friends who once gathered to greet me | H |
| Many alas will await me no more | B |
| Few are the comrades remaining to meet me | H |
| Cold are the arms that embraced me before | B |
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| Over Life's river the shadows are creeping | A |
| Dim and unknown is the opposite shore | B |
| But in the fatherland some are still keeping | A |
| Lights in the window and watch at the door | B |
John L. Stoddard
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