The Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBA DEDFD GHGHG IJIJI GKGKG L L DMDMD| Mother mother what is that gazing through the darkness | A |
| What is that that looks at me with its awful eyes | B |
| Tell me mother what it is freezing me to starkness | C |
| Through the house it seems to go with its icy sighs | B |
| What is that oh what is that mother in the darkness | A |
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| Child my child my little child 'tis a waving willow | D |
| That the night wind bows and sways near the window pane | E |
| Here's my breast my little son Let it be your pillow | D |
| Have no fear love in my arms Go to sleep again | F |
| Go to sleep and turn your face from the windy willow | D |
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| Mother mother what is that going round and round there | G |
| Round the house and at the door stops and turns the knob | H |
| Hold me close O mother love keep me from that sound there | G |
| Hear it how it's knocking now Don't you hear it sob | H |
| Guard me from the ghostly thing that goes round and round there | G |
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| Child my child my little child 'tis the wind that wanders | I |
| 'Tis the wandering wind that knocks crying at the door | J |
| Hark no more and heed no more what the night wind maunders | I |
| Rest your head on mother's heart list its faery lore | J |
| Go to sleep and have no fear of the wind that wanders | I |
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| Mother mother look and see what is that that stands there | G |
| With its lantern face and limbs mantled all in black | K |
| Gaunt and grim and horrible with its knuckled hands there | G |
| Now before me now beside me now behind my back | K |
| Mother mother face it now ask it why it stands there | G |
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| Child my child my little child 'tis a shadow only | - |
| Shadow of the lamp shade here near your little bed | L |
| No it will not come again when the night lies lonely | - |
| Sleep oh sleep my little son See the thing is fled | L |
| Mother will not leave her boy with that shadow only | - |
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| Will he live or will he die Answer fearful Shadow | D |
| O thou Death who hoverest near hold thy hands away | M |
| Oh that night were past and light lay on hill and meadow | D |
| Does he sleep or is he dead God that it were day | M |
| Light to help my love to fight with that crouching shadow | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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