Ashly Mere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDDC ABACEEEC BBBFGGGF BBBHIIIH| Come look in the shadowy water here | A |
| The stagnant water of Ashly Mere | B |
| Where the stirless depths are dark but clear | B |
| What is the thing that lies there | C |
| A lily pod half sunk from sight | D |
| Or spawn of the toad all water white | D |
| Or ashen blur of the moon's wan light | D |
| Or a woman's face and eyes there | C |
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| Now lean to the water a listening ear | A |
| The haunted water of Ashly Mere | B |
| What is the sound that you seem to hear | A |
| In the ghostly hush of the deeps there | C |
| A withered reed that the ripple lips | E |
| Or a night bird's wing that the surface whips | E |
| Or the rain in a leaf that drips and drips | E |
| Or a woman's voice that weeps there | C |
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| Now look and listen but draw not near | B |
| The lonely water of Ashly Mere | B |
| For so it happens this time each year | B |
| As you lean by the mere and listen | F |
| And the moaning voice I understand | G |
| For oft I have watched it draw to land | G |
| And lift from the water a ghastly hand | G |
| And a face whose eyeballs glisten | F |
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| And this is the reason why every year | B |
| To the hideous water of Ashly Mere | B |
| I come when the woodland leaves are sear | B |
| And the autumn moon hangs hoary | H |
| For here by the mere was wrought a wrong | I |
| But the old old story is over long | I |
| And woman is weak and man is strong | I |
| And the mere's and mine is the story | H |
Madison Julius Cawein
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