Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCA DEDEFFD GBGBHHG BABAIIA| Good night my love for I have dreamed of thee | A |
| In waking dreams until my soul is lost | B |
| Is lost in passion's wide and shoreless sea | A |
| Where like a ship unruddered it is tost | B |
| Hither and thither at the wild waves' will | C |
| There is no potent Master's voice to still | C |
| This newer more tempestuous Galilee | A |
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| The stormy petrels of my fancy fly | D |
| In warning course across the darkening green | E |
| And like a frightened bird my heart doth cry | D |
| And seek to find some rock of rest between | E |
| The threatening sky and the relentless wave | F |
| It is not length of life that grief doth crave | F |
| But only calm and peace in which to die | D |
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| Here let me rest upon this single hope | G |
| For oh my wings are weary of the wind | B |
| And with its stress no more may strive or cope | G |
| One cry has dulled mine ears mine eyes are blind | B |
| Would that o'er all the intervening space | H |
| I might fly forth and see thee face to face | H |
| I fly I search but love in gloom I grope | G |
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| Fly home far bird unto thy waiting nest | B |
| Spread thy strong wings above the wind swept sea | A |
| Beat the grim breeze with thy unruffled breast | B |
| Until thou sittest wing to wing with me | A |
| Then let the past bring up its tales of wrong | I |
| We shall chant low our sweet connubial song | I |
| Till storm and doubt and past no more shall be | A |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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