The Vampire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI KLKL MNMN| A lily in a twilight place | A |
| A moonflow'r in the lonely night | B |
| Strange beauty of a woman's face | A |
| Of wildflow'r white | B |
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| The rain that hangs a star's green ray | C |
| Slim on a leaf point's restlessness | D |
| Is not so glimmering green and gray | C |
| As was her dress | E |
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| I drew her dark hair from her eyes | F |
| And in their deeps beheld a while | G |
| Such shadowy moonlight as the skies | F |
| Of Hell may smile | G |
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| She held her mouth up redly wan | H |
| And burning cold I bent and kissed | I |
| Such rosy snow as some wild dawn | J |
| Makes of a mist | I |
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| God shall not take from me that hour | K |
| When round my neck her white arms clung | L |
| When 'neath my lips like some fierce flower | K |
| Her white throat swung | L |
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| Or words she murmured while she leaned | M |
| Witch words she holds me softly by | N |
| The spell that binds me to a fiend | M |
| Until I die | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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