The Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE EFEF GHGH| Get you away Is not the rose at flow'r | A |
| And list that song The bird is in the sky | B |
| Ah foolish one I know your final hour | C |
| I know the very place where you shall lie | B |
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| Silence The music and the bridal train | D |
| Do you not see the maidens in their white | E |
| Along that whiteness lo I am the stain | D |
| And darken where the Lord of all shall smite | E |
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| Yet leave me Shadow leave the day dear bought | E |
| When the swift runner reaches to the goal | F |
| That day is mine and at the end unsought | E |
| I ask the runner's body from his soul | F |
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| Then hast thou all The beautiful the brave | G |
| Nothing untouched dark Visitant of thee | H |
| Oh blinded Reason Sweeter for the grave | G |
| And fair a thousand fold because of me | H |
Margaret Steele Anderson
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