The Phantom Kiss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BABA CDCD CECE FFFF FGFG| One night in my room still and beamless | A |
| With will and with thought in eclipse | A |
| I rested in sleep that was dreamless | A |
| When softly there fell on my lips | A |
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| A touch as of lips that were pressing | B |
| Mine own with the message of bliss | A |
| A sudden soft fleeting caressing | B |
| A breath like a maiden's first kiss | A |
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| I woke and the scoffer may doubt me | C |
| I peered in surprise through the gloom | D |
| But nothing and none were about me | C |
| And I was alone in my room | D |
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| Perhaps 't was the wind that caressed me | C |
| And touched me with dew laden breath | E |
| Or maybe close sweeping there passed me | C |
| The low winging Angel of Death | E |
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| Some sceptic may choose to disdain it | F |
| Or one feign to read it aright | F |
| Or wisdom may seek to explain it | F |
| This mystical kiss in the night | F |
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| But rather let fancy thus clear it | F |
| That thinking of me here alone | G |
| The miles were made naught and in spirit | F |
| Thy lips love were laid on mine own | G |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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