The Mirror Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE FGHG IJKL MNON NPQP NCRC FSBS TUVU WXFX YFZF A2B2C2B2 ABCB| An antique mirror this | A |
| I like it not at all | B |
| In this lonely room where the goblin gloom | C |
| Scowls from the arrased wall | B |
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| A mystic mirror framed | D |
| In ebon wildly carved | E |
| And the prisoned air in the crevice there | F |
| Moans like a man that's starved | E |
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| A truthful mirror where | F |
| In the broad chaste light of day | G |
| From the window's arches like fairy torches | H |
| Red roses swing and sway | G |
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| They blush and bow and gaze | I |
| Proud beauties desolate | J |
| In their tresses cold the sunlight's gold | K |
| In their hearts a jealous hate | L |
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| A small green worm that gnaws | M |
| For the nightingale that low | N |
| Each eve doth rave the passionate slave | O |
| Of the wild white rose below | N |
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| The night bird wails below | N |
| The stars creep out above | P |
| And the roses soon in the sultry moon | Q |
| Shall palpitate with love | P |
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| The night bird sobs below | N |
| The roses blow and bloom | C |
| Thro' the diamond panes the moonlight rains | R |
| In the dim unholy room | C |
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| Ancestors grim that stare | F |
| Stiff starched and haughty down | S |
| From the oaken wall of the noble hall | B |
| Put on a sterner frown | S |
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| The old bleak castle clock | T |
| Booms midnight overhead | U |
| And the rose is wan and the bird is gone | V |
| When walk the shrouded dead | U |
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| And grim ancestors gaunt | W |
| In smiles and tears faint flit | X |
| By the mirror there they stand and stare | F |
| And weep and sigh to it | X |
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| In rare rich ermine earls | Y |
| With rapiers jeweled rare | F |
| With a powdered throng of courtiers long | Z |
| Pass with stiff and stately air | F |
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| With diamonds and perfumes | A2 |
| In ruff and golden lace | B2 |
| Tall ladies pass by the looking glass | C2 |
| Each sighing at her face | B2 |
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| An awful mirror this | A |
| I like it not at all | B |
| In this lonely room where the goblin gloom | C |
| Scowls from the arrased wall | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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