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 sleep | A |
| And I rose from my sleep and went | B |
| Out in the night to weep | A |
| Over the bristling bent | B |
| With my soul it seemed I stood | C |
| Alone in a moaning wood | C |
| - | |
| And my soul said gazing at me | D |
| Shall I show you another land | E |
| Than other this flesh can see | D |
| And took into hers my hand | E |
| We passed from the wood to a heath | F |
| As starved as the ribs of Death | G |
| - | |
| Three skeleton trees we pass | H |
| Bare bones on an iron moor | I |
| Where every leaf and the grass | H |
| Was a thorn and a thistle hoar | J |
| And my soul said looking on me | D |
| The past of your life you see | D |
| - | |
| And a swine herd passed with his swine | K |
| Deformed and I heard him growl | L |
| Two eyes of a sottish shine | K |
| Leered under two brows as foul | L |
| And my soul said This is the lust | M |
| That soils my limbs with the dust | M |
| - | |
| And a goose wife hobbled by | N |
| On a crutch with the devil's geese | O |
| A mumbling how life is a lie | N |
| And cursing my soul without cease | O |
| And my soul said This is desire | P |
| The meaning of life is higher | P |
| - | |
| And we came to a garden close | Q |
| To a hollow of graves and tombs | R |
| A garden as red as a rose | S |
| Hung over of obscene glooms | S |
| The heart of each rose was a spark | T |
| That smouldered or splintered the dark | T |
| - | |
| And I was aware of a girl | U |
| With a wild rose face who came | V |
| With a mouth like a shell's split pearl | U |
| Rose clad in a robe of flame | V |
| And she plucked the roses and gave | W |
| And my flesh was her veriest slave | W |
| - | |
| She vanished My lips would have kissed | X |
| The flowers she gave me with sighs | S |
| But they writhed in my hands and hissed | X |
| In their hearts were a serpent's eyes | S |
| And my soul said Pleasure is she | D |
| The joys of the flesh you see | D |
| - | |
| And I bowed with a heart too weary | D |
| That longed for rest for sleep | A |
| And my eyes were heavy and teary | D |
| And yearned for a way to weep | A |
| And my soul smiled This may be | D |
| Will you know me and follow me | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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