The Shadow Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGA IJIJ EKEK LMLM| A shadow glided down the way | A |
| Where sunset groped among the trees | B |
| And all the woodland bower asway | A |
| With trouble of the evening breeze | B |
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| A shape it moved with head held down | C |
| I knew it not yet seemed to know | D |
| Its form its carriage of a clown | C |
| Its raiment of the long ago | D |
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| It never turned or spoke a word | E |
| But fixed its gaze on something far | F |
| As if within its heart it heard | E |
| The summons of the evening star | F |
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| I turned to it and tried to speak | G |
| To ask it of the thing it saw | H |
| Or heard beyond Earth's outmost peak | G |
| The dream the splendor and the awe | A |
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| What beauty or what terror there | I |
| Still bade its purpose to ascend | J |
| Above the sunset's sombre glare | I |
| The twilight and the long day's end | J |
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| It looked at me but said no word | E |
| Then suddenly I saw the truth | K |
| This was the call that once I heard | E |
| And failed to follow in my youth | K |
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| Now well I saw that this was I | L |
| My own dead self who walked with me | M |
| Who died in that dark hour gone by | L |
| With all the dreams that used to be | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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