The Other Side Of A Mirror Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDEDEFE GHGHIH JKLKMK ENENK| I sat before my glass one day | A |
| And conjured up a vision bare | B |
| Unlike the aspects glad and gay | A |
| That erst were found reflected there | B |
| The vision of a woman wild | C |
| With more than womanly despair | B |
| Her hair stood back on either side | D |
| A face bereft of loveliness | E |
| It had no envy now to hide | D |
| What once no man on earth could guess | E |
| It formed the thorny aureole | F |
| Of hard unsanctified distress | E |
| - | |
| Her lips were open not a sound | G |
| Came though the parted lines of red | H |
| Whate'er it was the hideous wound | G |
| In silence and secret bled | H |
| No sigh relieved her speechless woe | I |
| She had no voice to speak her dread | H |
| - | |
| And in her lurid eyes there shone | J |
| The dying flame of life's desire | K |
| Made mad because its hope was gone | L |
| And kindled at the leaping fire | K |
| Of jealousy and fierce revenge | M |
| And strength that could not change nor tire | K |
| - | |
| Shade of a shadow in the glass | E |
| O set the crystal surface free | N |
| Pass as the fairer visions pass | E |
| Nor ever more return to be | N |
| The ghost of a distracted hour | K |
| That heard me whisper 'I am she ' | - |
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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