The Barrier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI AIAIThe Midnight wooed the Morning Star | A |
And prayed her Love come nearer | B |
Your swinging coldly there afar | A |
To me but makes you dearer | B |
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The Morning Star was pale with dole | C |
As said she low replying | D |
Oh lover mine soul of my soul | C |
For you I too am sighing | D |
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But One ordained when we were born | E |
In spite of Love's insistence | F |
That Night might only view the Morn | E |
Adoring at a distance | F |
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But as she spoke the jealous Sun | G |
Across the heavens panted | H |
Oh whining fools he cried have done | G |
Your wishes shall be granted | I |
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He hurled his flaming lances far | A |
The twain stood unaffrighted | I |
And Midnight and the Morning Star | A |
Lay down in death united | I |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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