Tones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLL NONO A PLQL RNRN STSU VEWE XYXZ A2LB2LI | 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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