Where And What? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STHT UVFV WXYX EZA2Z B2C2XC2 XXD2X ZE2XE2 XZZZ F2XXX

Her ivied towers tallA
Old forests belt and barB
And oh the West's dim mountain crestsC
That line the blue afarB
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Her gardens face dark cliffsD
That seeth against a seaE
As blue and deep as the eyes of SleepF
With saddening mysteryE
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Red sands roll leagues on leaguesG
Ribbed of the wind and waveH
The near warm sky bends from on highI
The pale brow of a slaveH
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And when the morning's beamsJ
Lie crushed on crag and bayK
A wail of flutes and soft strung lutesL
O'er the lone land swoons awayK
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The woods are 'roused from restM
A scent of earth and brineN
By brake and lake the wild things wakeO
And torrents leap and shineN
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But she in one gray towerP
White faced knows how he diedQ
And a murderous scorn on her lips is bornR
To curse his heart that liedQ
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She smiles and sorrows notS
Ah death to know she moansT
The gluttonous grave of the bitter waveH
Laughs loud above his bonesT
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She laughs and hating yearnsU
Out toward the surf's far reachV
Like one in sleep who wild to weepF
Hath only moans for speechV
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And when the sun had setW
And crocus heavens had fedX
Their wan fire soon to a thorn thin moonY
The flocking stars that ledX
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A breeze set in from seaE
Most odorous with spiceZ
And streamed among big stars that hungA2
Thin mists as white as iceZ
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And then her eyes waxed largeB2
With one last hideous hopeC2
And her throat she bent toward the firmamentX
Star scattered scope on scopeC2
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The haunted night that feltX
The rapture so accursedX
Shook loosening one green star that spunD2
Wild down the dusk and burstX
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Fair was her face as Sin'sZ
Ah wretch she wailed to knowE2
A wormy seat at Death's lean feetX
May not undo such woeE2
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The devil wrangling pitX
Much dearer than God's deepsZ
Of serious skies where thought ne'er diesZ
And memory never sleepsZ
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And dearer far than bothF2
Than Heaven or Hell the jestX
The godless lot to rot and rotX
And not be cursed or blessedX

Madison Julius Cawein



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