Tones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLL NONO A PLQL RNRN STSU VEWE XYXZ A2LB2L| I | A |
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| A woman fair to look upon | B |
| Where waters whiten with the moon | C |
| While down the glimmer of the lawn | D |
| The white moths swoon | C |
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| A mouth of music eyes of love | E |
| And hands of blended snow and scent | F |
| That touch the pearl pale shadow of | E |
| An instrument | G |
| - | |
| And low and sweet that song of sleep | H |
| After the song of love is hushed | I |
| While all the longing here to weep | H |
| Is held and crushed | I |
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| Then leafy silence that is musk | J |
| With breath of the magnolia tree | K |
| While dwindles moon white through the dusk | J |
| Her drapery | K |
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| Let me remember how a heart | L |
| Romantic wrote upon that night | M |
| My soul still helps me read each part | L |
| Of it aright | L |
| - | |
| And like a dead leaf shut between | N |
| A book's dull chapters stained and dark | O |
| That page with immemorial green | N |
| Of life I mark | O |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| It is not well for me to hear | P |
| That song's appealing melody | L |
| The pain of loss comes all too near | Q |
| Through it to me | L |
| - | |
| The loss of her whose love looks through | R |
| The mist death's hand hath hung between | N |
| Within the shadow of the yew | R |
| Her grave is green | N |
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| Ah dream that vanished long ago | S |
| Oh anguish of remembered tears | T |
| And shadow of unlifted woe | S |
| Athwart the years | U |
| - | |
| That haunt the sad rooms of my days | V |
| As keepsakes of unperished love | E |
| Where pale the memory of her face | W |
| Is framed above | E |
| - | |
| This olden song she used to sing | X |
| Of love and sleep is now a charm | Y |
| To open mystic doors and bring | X |
| Her spirit form | Z |
| - | |
| In music making visible | A2 |
| One soul assertive memory | L |
| That steals unto my side to tell | B2 |
| My loss to me | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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