Rembrandts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG A HAHA IJIJ KLKL A MNMN IOIP IQIQ| I | A |
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| I shall not soon forget her and her eyes | B |
| The haunts of hate where suffering seemed to write | C |
| Its own dark name whose syllables are sighs | B |
| In strange and starless night | C |
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| I shall not soon forget her and her face | D |
| So quiet yet uneasy as a dream | E |
| That stands on tip toe in a haunted place | D |
| And listens for a scream | E |
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| She made me feel as one alone may feel | F |
| In some grand ghostly house of olden time | G |
| The presence of a treasure walls conceal | F |
| The secret of a crime | G |
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| II | A |
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| With lambent faces mimicking the moon | H |
| The water lilies lie | A |
| Dotting the darkness of the long lagoon | H |
| Like some black sky | A |
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| A face the whiteness of a water flower | I |
| And pollen golden hair | J |
| In shadow half half in the moonbeams' glower | I |
| Lifts slowly there | J |
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| A young girl's face death makes cold marble of | K |
| Turned to the moon and me | L |
| Sad with the pathos of unspeakable love | K |
| Floating to sea | L |
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| III | A |
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| One listening bent in dread of something coming | M |
| He can not see nor balk | N |
| A phantom footstep in the ghostly gloaming | M |
| That haunts a terraced walk | N |
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| Long has he given his whole heart's hard endeavor | I |
| Unto the work begun | O |
| Still hoping love would watch it grow and ever | I |
| Turn kindly eyes thereon | P |
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| Now in his life he feels there nears an hour | I |
| Inevitable alas | Q |
| When in the darkness he shall cringe and cower | I |
| And see his dead self pass | Q |
Madison Julius Cawein
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