Which? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJHJ KLMLNO KKMKNK KPKPKP| The wind was on the forest | A |
| And silence on the wold | B |
| And darkness on the waters | C |
| And heaven was starry cold | B |
| When Sleep with mystic magic | D |
| Bade me this thing behold | B |
| - | |
| This side an iron woodland | E |
| That side an iron waste | F |
| And heaven a tower of iron | G |
| Wherein the wan moon paced | F |
| Still as a phantom woman | H |
| Ice eyed and icy faced | F |
| - | |
| And through the haunted tower | I |
| Of silence and of night | J |
| My Soul and I went only | K |
| My Soul whose face was white | J |
| Whose one hand signed me listen | H |
| One bore a taper light | J |
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| For lo a voice behind me | K |
| Kept sighing in my ear | L |
| The dreams my flesh accepted | M |
| My mind refused to hear | L |
| Of one I loved and loved not | N |
| Whose spirit now spake near | O |
| - | |
| And lo a voice before me | K |
| Kept calling constantly | K |
| The hopes my mind accepted | M |
| My flesh refused to see | K |
| Of one I loved and loved not | N |
| Whose spirit spake to me | K |
| - | |
| This way the one would bid me | K |
| This way the other saith | P |
| Sweet is the voice behind me | K |
| Of LIFE that followeth | P |
| And sweet the voice before me | K |
| Of LIFE whose name is DEATH | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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