Where And What? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STHT UVFV WXYX EZA2Z B2C2XC2 XXD2X ZE2XE2 XZZZ F2XXXHer 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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