The White Vigil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFHCC IJIJCC| Last night I dreamed I saw you lying dead | A |
| And by your sheeted form stood all alone | B |
| Frail as a flow'r you lay upon your bed | A |
| And on your still face through the casement shone | B |
| The moon as lingering to kiss you there | C |
| Fall'n asleep white violets in your hair | C |
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| Oh sick to weeping was my soul and sad | D |
| To breaking was my heart that would not break | E |
| And for my soul's great grief no tear I had | D |
| No lamentation for my heart's deep ache | E |
| Yet all I bore seemed more than I could bear | C |
| Beside you dead white violets in your hair | C |
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| A white rose blooming at your window bar | F |
| And glimmering in it like a fire fly caught | G |
| Upon the thorns the light of one white star | F |
| Looked on with me as if they felt and thought | H |
| As did my heart How beautiful and fair | C |
| And young she lies white violets in her hair | C |
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| And so we watched beside you sad and still | I |
| The star the rose and I The moon had past | J |
| Like a pale traveler behind the hill | I |
| With all her echoed radiance At last | J |
| The darkness came to hide my tears and share | C |
| My watch by you white violets in your hair | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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