Lilith's Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAB C DEDEDDE C FAAAFAFFA G HAHAAHA G GIGGIGI G FJJFJFFJ| White art thou O Lilith as the foam that glimmers and quivers | A |
| Glitters and clingingly silvers and snows from the balm | B |
| Of the beautiful breasts of the nymphs of the seas and rivers | A |
| That crystal and pearl by clusters of tropical palm | B |
| Forests of tenebrous palm | B |
| Once didst thou beckon and smile O Lilith as givers | A |
| Of heavenly gifts smile and lo my heart no longer was calm | B |
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| II | C |
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| Cruel art thou O Lilith as spirits that battle | D |
| In tempest and night in ultimate realms of the Earth | E |
| Immaterial hosts that shimmer and shout and rattle | D |
| Elemental armour and drive with madness and mirth | E |
| Down from the mountains into the sea like cattle | D |
| Gaunt and glacial cattle | D |
| Congealed thunder the icebergs gigantic of girth | E |
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| III | C |
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| Subtle art thou O Lilith as the sylphids that cover | F |
| Dawn with their forms of rose and breeze it with breasts and cheeks | A |
| Breasts that are blossoms and cheeks | A |
| Pearls in the morning's creeks | A |
| And wily art thou as the daemons of beauty that hover | F |
| Raven of hair in sunset trailing its gold with streaks | A |
| And what man Lilith beholding would not yield himself thy lover | F |
| Beautiful one thy lover | F |
| Die as I died Lilith for the love that no tongue speaks | A |
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| IV | G |
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| Before us behold the long white thunder of ocean | H |
| Around us the forest a whispering world of trees | A |
| Above us the glory and glitter golden and silvery motion | H |
| Of infinite stars O Lilith and arrowing out of these | A |
| Down in my soul from these | A |
| A sense of ancient despair destruction devotion | H |
| Medusa of beauty that slays that is part of man's destinies | A |
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| V | G |
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| O kisses again would I die O kisses that slew me | G |
| O beautiful body of sin O sin that was mine | I |
| O splendour and whiteness of wickedness passion that drew me | G |
| Golden of hair that drew me | G |
| Draw me again with thine eyes their azure divine | I |
| Slay me again with caresses and let it pierce through me | G |
| All the poignant desire that made me eternally thine | I |
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| VI | G |
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| And the larv the lamias that cling to encumber | F |
| And bat like feed at the Ethiop breasts of Night | J |
| Swarms like bubbles that rise from the shadowy pools of night | J |
| Owl eyed hag haired her minions awoke from their slumber | F |
| And peering and whispering came O Lilith the white | J |
| But thou with thy beautiful hair from their hideous number | F |
| The night of their myriad number | F |
| Covered me dead at thy feet and hid me from sight | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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