Communion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI JFJF KBKB LCLC FMFM BIBI NONO BHBH| In the silence of my heart | A |
| I will spend an hour with thee | B |
| When my love shall rend apart | A |
| All the veil of mystery | B |
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| All that dim and misty veil | C |
| That shut in between our souls | D |
| When Death cried Ho maiden hail | C |
| And your barque sped on the shoals | D |
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| On the shoals Nay wrongly said | E |
| On the breeze of Death that sweeps | F |
| Far from life thy soul has sped | E |
| Out into unsounded deeps | F |
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| I shall take an hour and come | G |
| Sailing darling to thy side | H |
| Wind nor sea may keep me from | G |
| Soft communings with my bride | H |
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| I shall rest my head on thee | B |
| As I did long days of yore | I |
| When a calm untroubled sea | B |
| Rocked thy vessel at the shore | I |
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| I shall take thy hand in mine | J |
| And live o'er the olden days | F |
| When thy smile to me was wine | J |
| Golden wine thy word of praise | F |
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| For the carols I had wrought | K |
| In my soul's simplicity | B |
| For the petty beads of thought | K |
| Which thine eyes alone could see | B |
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| Ah those eyes love blind but keen | L |
| For my welfare and my weal | C |
| Tho' the grave door shut between | L |
| Still their love lights o'er me steal | C |
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| I can see thee thro' my tears | F |
| As thro' rain we see the sun | M |
| What tho' cold and cooling years | F |
| Shall their bitter courses run | M |
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| I shall see thee still and be | B |
| Thy true lover evermore | I |
| And thy face shall be to me | B |
| Dear and helpful as before | I |
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| Death may vaunt and Death may boast | N |
| But we laugh his pow'r to scorn | O |
| He is but a slave at most | N |
| Night that heralds coming morn | O |
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| I shall spend an hour with thee | B |
| Day by day my little bride | H |
| True love laughs at mystery | B |
| Crying Doors of Death fly wide | H |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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