The Mystery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGDHDDIJDKLKMN| I was not now I am a few days hence | A |
| I shall not be I fain would look before | B |
| And after but can neither do some Power | C |
| Or lack of power says no to all I would | D |
| I stand upon a wide and sunless plain | E |
| Nor chart nor steel to guide my steps aright | D |
| Whene'er o'ercoming fear I dare to move | F |
| I grope without direction and by chance | G |
| Some feign to hear a voice and feel a hand | D |
| That draws them ever upward thro' the gloom | H |
| But I I hear no voice and touch no hand | D |
| Tho' oft thro' silence infinite I list | D |
| And strain my hearing to supernal sounds | I |
| Tho' oft thro' fateful darkness do I reach | J |
| And stretch my hand to find that other hand | D |
| I question of th' eternal bending skies | K |
| That seem to neighbor with the novice earth | L |
| But they roll on and daily shut their eyes | K |
| On me as I one day shall do on them | M |
| And tell me not the secret that I ask | N |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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