Answered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCA DDEFEFD GGHIJIG KKLMLLL NNOPOPN| Do you remember how that night drew on | A |
| That night of sorrow when the stars looked wan | A |
| As eyes that gaze reproachful in a dream | B |
| Loved eyes long lost and sadder than the grave | C |
| How through the heaven stole the moon's gray gleam | B |
| Like a nun's ghost down a cathedral nave | C |
| Do you remember how that night drew on | A |
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| Do you remember the hard words then said | D |
| Said to the living now denied the dead | D |
| That left me dead long long before I died | E |
| In heart and spirit me your words had slain | F |
| Telling how love to my poor life had lied | E |
| Armed with the dagger of a pale disdain | F |
| Do you remember the hard words then said | D |
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| Do you remember now this night draws down | G |
| The threatening heavens that the lightnings crown | G |
| With wrecks of thunder when no moon doth give | H |
| The clouds wild witchery as in a room | I |
| Behind the sorrowful arras still may live | J |
| The pallid secret of the haunted gloom | I |
| Do you remember now this night draws down | G |
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| Do you remember now it comes to pass | K |
| Your form is bowed as is the wind swept grass | K |
| And death hath won from you that confidence | L |
| Denied to life now your sick soul rebels | M |
| Against your pride with tragic eloquence | L |
| That self crowned demon of the heart's fierce hells | L |
| Do you remember now it comes to pass | L |
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| Do you remember Bid your soul be still | N |
| Here passion hath surrendered unto will | N |
| And flesh to spirit Quiet your wild tongue | O |
| And wilder heart Your kiss is naught to me | P |
| The instrument love gave you lies unstrung | O |
| Silent forsaken of all melody | P |
| Do you remember Bid your soul be still | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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