Shadows On The Shore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DEFFE GHIIH JKLLK MGNNO PFGGGQFThe doubtful dawn came dim and wan | A |
And dimmer grew the day | B |
The kildee whistled among the weeds | C |
The blue crane clanged in the river reeds | C |
And a mist fell wild and gray | B |
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At dawn she stood her heavy hood | D |
Flung back in the ferry boat | E |
To watch the rebel raiders ride | F |
Her rebel love with his men beside | F |
His kiss on her mouth and throat | E |
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Like some dark spell the tempest fell | G |
Like some wild curse night came | H |
For hours she heard the warring dead | I |
Whose batteries opened overhead | I |
With thunder and with flame | H |
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And now again in wind and rain | J |
She toiled at the creaking oar | K |
Oh what had she heard in the night and storm | L |
Whose voice was that and whose the form | L |
That galloped to the shore | K |
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Across the stream in the tempest's gleam | M |
Who sent that wild halloo | G |
In the lightning's glare who was it there | N |
The wind and the rain in his tossing hair | N |
And his gray cloak torn in two | O |
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Through rain and blast pull fast pull fast | P |
Oar down the rushing tide | F |
Look where he rides in the lightning's glow | G |
And hearken now to his far hallo | G |
But only his horse with head hung low | G |
A blur of blood on the saddlebow | Q |
Comes whinnying to her side | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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