Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI| THROUGH some strange sense of sight or touch | A |
| I find what all have found before | B |
| The presence I have feared so much | A |
| The unknown's immaterial door | B |
| - | |
| I seek not and it comes to me | C |
| The do not know the thing I find | D |
| The fillet of fatality | C |
| Drops from my brows that made me blind | D |
| - | |
| Point forward now or backward light | E |
| The way I take I may not choose | F |
| Out of the night into the night | E |
| And in the night no certain clews | F |
| - | |
| But on the future dim and vast | G |
| And dark with dust and sacrifice | H |
| Death's towering ruin from the past | G |
| Makes black the land that round me lies | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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