Lilith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU VBVB WBWB XYXY| Yea there are some who always seek | A |
| The love that lasts an hour | B |
| And some who in love's language speak | A |
| Yet never know his power | B |
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| Of such was I who knew not what | C |
| Sweet mysteries may rise | D |
| Within the heart when 't is its lot | E |
| To love and realize | D |
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| Of such was I ah me till lo | F |
| Your face on mine did gleam | G |
| And changed that world I used to know | F |
| Into an evil dream | G |
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| That world wherein on hill and plain | H |
| Great blood red poppies bloomed | I |
| Their hot hearts thirsty for the rain | H |
| And sleepily perfumed | I |
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| Above below on every part | J |
| A crimson shadow lay | K |
| As if the red sun streamed athwart | L |
| And sunset was alway | M |
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| I know not how I know not when | N |
| I only know that there | O |
| She met me in the haunted glen | N |
| A poppy in her hair | O |
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| Her face seemed fair as Mary's is | P |
| That knows no sin or wrong | Q |
| Her presence filled the silences | P |
| As music fills a song | Q |
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| And she was clad like the Mother of God | R |
| As 't were for Christ's sweet sake | S |
| But when she moved and where she trod | R |
| A hiss went of a snake | S |
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| Though seeming sinless till I die | T |
| I shall not know for sure | U |
| Why to my soul she seemed a lie | T |
| And otherwise than pure | U |
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| Nor why I kissed her soon and late | V |
| And for her felt desire | B |
| While loathing of her passion ate | V |
| Into my soul like fire | B |
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| Was it because my soul could tell | W |
| That like the poppy flower | B |
| She had no soul a thing of Hell | W |
| That o'er it had no power | B |
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| Or was it that your love at last | X |
| My soul so long had craved | Y |
| From the sweet sin that held me fast | X |
| At that last moment saved | Y |
Madison Julius Cawein
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