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 tall | A |
| Old forests belt and bar | B |
| And oh the West's dim mountain crests | C |
| That line the blue afar | B |
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| Her gardens face dark cliffs | D |
| That seeth against a sea | E |
| As blue and deep as the eyes of Sleep | F |
| With saddening mystery | E |
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| Red sands roll leagues on leagues | G |
| Ribbed of the wind and wave | H |
| The near warm sky bends from on high | I |
| The pale brow of a slave | H |
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| And when the morning's beams | J |
| Lie crushed on crag and bay | K |
| A wail of flutes and soft strung lutes | L |
| O'er the lone land swoons away | K |
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| The woods are 'roused from rest | M |
| A scent of earth and brine | N |
| By brake and lake the wild things wake | O |
| And torrents leap and shine | N |
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| But she in one gray tower | P |
| White faced knows how he died | Q |
| And a murderous scorn on her lips is born | R |
| To curse his heart that lied | Q |
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| She smiles and sorrows not | S |
| Ah death to know she moans | T |
| The gluttonous grave of the bitter wave | H |
| Laughs loud above his bones | T |
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| She laughs and hating yearns | U |
| Out toward the surf's far reach | V |
| Like one in sleep who wild to weep | F |
| Hath only moans for speech | V |
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| And when the sun had set | W |
| And crocus heavens had fed | X |
| Their wan fire soon to a thorn thin moon | Y |
| The flocking stars that led | X |
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| A breeze set in from sea | E |
| Most odorous with spice | Z |
| And streamed among big stars that hung | A2 |
| Thin mists as white as ice | Z |
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| And then her eyes waxed large | B2 |
| With one last hideous hope | C2 |
| And her throat she bent toward the firmament | X |
| Star scattered scope on scope | C2 |
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| The haunted night that felt | X |
| The rapture so accursed | X |
| Shook loosening one green star that spun | D2 |
| Wild down the dusk and burst | X |
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| Fair was her face as Sin's | Z |
| Ah wretch she wailed to know | E2 |
| A wormy seat at Death's lean feet | X |
| May not undo such woe | E2 |
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| The devil wrangling pit | X |
| Much dearer than God's deeps | Z |
| Of serious skies where thought ne'er dies | Z |
| And memory never sleeps | Z |
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| And dearer far than both | F2 |
| Than Heaven or Hell the jest | X |
| The godless lot to rot and rot | X |
| And not be cursed or blessed | X |
Madison Julius Cawein
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