The Barrier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI AIAI| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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