Love's Phantom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH BBII JJII KKJJ LMII NNOO| Whene'er I try to read a book | A |
| Across the page your face will look | A |
| And then I neither know nor care | B |
| What sense the printed words may bear | B |
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| At night when I would go to sleep | C |
| Thinking of you awake I keep | C |
| And still repeat the words you said | D |
| Like sick men murmuring prayers in bed | D |
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| And when with weariness oppressed | E |
| I sink in spite of you to rest | E |
| Your image like a lovely sprite | F |
| Haunts me in dreams through half the night | F |
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| I wake upon the autumn morn | G |
| To find the sunrise hardly born | G |
| And in the sky a soft pale blue | H |
| And in my heart your image true | H |
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| When out I walk to take the air | B |
| Your image is for ever there | B |
| Among the woods that lose their leaves | I |
| Or where the North Sea sadly heaves | I |
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| By what enchantment shall be laid | J |
| This ghost which does not make afraid | J |
| But vexes with dim loveliness | I |
| And many a shadowy caress | I |
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| There is no other way I know | K |
| But unto you forthwith to go | K |
| That I may look upon the maid | J |
| Whereof that other is the shade | J |
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| As the strong sun puts out the moon | L |
| Whose borrowed rays are all his own | M |
| So in your living presence dies | I |
| The phantom kindled at your eyes | I |
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| By this most blessed spell each day | N |
| The vexing ghost awhile I lay | N |
| Yet am I glad to know that when | O |
| I leave you it will rise again | O |
Robert Fuller Murray
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