The Eve Of All-saints Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI JKJJK DLDDL MNMMN OPQQP RSRRS TKUTK VWVVW MXMMX DGDDG YZA2A2Z A2A2A2A2A2 DCDDC| A | |
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| This is the tale they tell | B |
| Of an Hallowe'en | C |
| This is the thing that befell | B |
| Me and the village Belle | B |
| Beautiful Aimee Dean | C |
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| Did I love her God and she | D |
| They know and I | E |
| And love was the life of me | D |
| Whatever else may be | D |
| Would God that I could die | E |
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| That All Saints' eve was dim | F |
| The frost lay white | G |
| Under strange stars and a slim | F |
| Moon in the graveyard grim | F |
| An Autumn ghost of light | G |
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| They told her Go alone | H |
| With never a word | I |
| To the burial plot's unknown | H |
| Grave with the grayest stone | H |
| When the clock on twelve is heard | I |
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| Three times around it pass | J |
| With never a sound | K |
| Each time a wisp of grass | J |
| And myrtle pluck and pass | J |
| Out of the ghostly ground | K |
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| And the bridegroom that's to be | D |
| At smiling wait | L |
| With a face like mist to see | D |
| With graceful gallantry | D |
| Will bow you to the gate | L |
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| She laughed at this and so | M |
| Bespoke us how | N |
| To the burial place she'd go | M |
| And I was glad to know | M |
| For I'd be there to bow | N |
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| An acre from the farm | O |
| The homestead graves | P |
| Lay walled from sun and storm | Q |
| Old cedars of priestly form | Q |
| Around like sentinel slaves | P |
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| I loved but never could say | R |
| Such words to her | S |
| And waited from day to day | R |
| Nursing the hope that lay | R |
| Under the doubts that were | S |
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| She passed 'neath the iron arch | T |
| Of the legended ground | K |
| And the moon like a twisted torch | U |
| Burned over one lonesome larch | T |
| She passed with never a sound | K |
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| Three times had the circle traced | V |
| Three times had bent | W |
| To the grave that the myrtle graced | V |
| Three times then softly faced | V |
| Homeward and slowly went | W |
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| Had the moonlight changed me so | M |
| Or fear undone | X |
| Her stepping strange and slow | M |
| Did she see and did not know | M |
| Or loved she another one | X |
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| Who knows She turned to flee | D |
| With a face so white | G |
| That it haunts and will haunt me | D |
| The wind blew gustily | D |
| The graveyard gate clanged tight | G |
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| Did she think it me or what | Y |
| Clutching her dress | Z |
| Her face so pinched that not | A2 |
| A star in a stormy spot | A2 |
| Shows half as much distress | Z |
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| Did I speak did she answer aught | A2 |
| O God had I said | A2 |
| Aimee 't is I but naught | A2 |
| And the mist and the moon distraught | A2 |
| Stared with me on her dead | A2 |
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| This is the tale they tell | D |
| Of the Hallowe'en | C |
| This is the thing that befell | D |
| Me and the village Belle | D |
| Beautiful Aimee Dean | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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