Self And Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHJDD KLKLMM NONOPP QRSSTT UVUVWW XSXSDD DADADD

It came to me in my sleepA
And I rose from my sleep and wentB
Out in the night to weepA
Over the bristling bentB
With my soul it seemed I stoodC
Alone in a moaning woodC
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And my soul said gazing at meD
Shall I show you another landE
Than other this flesh can seeD
And took into hers my handE
We passed from the wood to a heathF
As starved as the ribs of DeathG
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Three skeleton trees we passH
Bare bones on an iron moorI
Where every leaf and the grassH
Was a thorn and a thistle hoarJ
And my soul said looking on meD
The past of your life you seeD
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And a swine herd passed with his swineK
Deformed and I heard him growlL
Two eyes of a sottish shineK
Leered under two brows as foulL
And my soul said This is the lustM
That soils my limbs with the dustM
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And a goose wife hobbled byN
On a crutch with the devil's geeseO
A mumbling how life is a lieN
And cursing my soul without ceaseO
And my soul said This is desireP
The meaning of life is higherP
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And we came to a garden closeQ
To a hollow of graves and tombsR
A garden as red as a roseS
Hung over of obscene gloomsS
The heart of each rose was a sparkT
That smouldered or splintered the darkT
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And I was aware of a girlU
With a wild rose face who cameV
With a mouth like a shell's split pearlU
Rose clad in a robe of flameV
And she plucked the roses and gaveW
And my flesh was her veriest slaveW
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She vanished My lips would have kissedX
The flowers she gave me with sighsS
But they writhed in my hands and hissedX
In their hearts were a serpent's eyesS
And my soul said Pleasure is sheD
The joys of the flesh you seeD
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And I bowed with a heart too wearyD
That longed for rest for sleepA
And my eyes were heavy and tearyD
And yearned for a way to weepA
And my soul smiled This may beD
Will you know me and follow meD

Madison Julius Cawein



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