A Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OGOG| O you that facing the mirror darkly bright | A |
| In the shadowed corner loiter shyly fond | B |
| To ask of your own sad eyes a comfort slight | A |
| Before you brave the pathless world beyond | B |
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| Not first to night invades your spirit this wild | C |
| Despair when loneliness stabs you Turned your face | D |
| Trembles and soft hesitation makes you a child | C |
| The child you were in some far forgotten place | D |
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| Amid things for ever rejected Dreamed you so | E |
| From the blankness of life to escape to a region enjoyed | F |
| Glowing and strange Yet blank to night I know | E |
| Spreads life my sister within you a deeper void | F |
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| In all this city I think so charged with pain | G |
| None suffers more desiring what you do | H |
| With insupportable longing and still in vain | G |
| Desiring still condemned to accept and rue | H |
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| Where tarries he Love the adored one In fields unknown | I |
| Roams he apart or in sound of a pleasant stream | J |
| Sleeps Nay dwells he in cloudy rumour alone | I |
| A name a vision a sweet eluding dream | J |
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| He lives he lives my sister yet rarely to men | K |
| He appears they touch but his robe and believe it is he | L |
| But soft with inaudible feet he is flown nor again | K |
| Comes soon rejoicing still to be wayward and free | L |
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| A moment ev'n now he was near you invisible wings | M |
| Brushed by you and infinite longing to follow to find | N |
| That vision truth overcomes you the heart's sad things | M |
| To tell in a trusted ear on a bosom kind | N |
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| Alas not so he is won when the last despair | O |
| Encamps in the heart at last when all seems vain | G |
| Then perchance he will steal to you unaware | O |
| And loose your tears and understand your pain | G |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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