Three Songs Of The Enigma Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CC DD EE FF GG CC A B HHFF FFFF A I JKJKLK MNMNMN OPQPOPR| I | A |
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| SOMETHING | B |
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| How long I have wished for something I know well | C |
| But what that something is I cannot tell | C |
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| So often at sunrise in sad tears I wake | D |
| Shivering with longing for its sake | D |
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| So often at noontide when the house is still | E |
| It sickens me with its unbidden ill | E |
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| So often at twilight it does not seem far | F |
| Not further than the first and far off star | F |
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| All all my life is built towards its token | G |
| Yet by its near far offness I am broken | G |
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| For I am ever under something's spell | C |
| But what that something is I cannot tell | C |
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| II | A |
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| A WANDERING THING | B |
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| The hopeless rain a sigh a shadow | H |
| Falters and drifts again again over the meadow | H |
| It wanders lost drifts hither thither | F |
| It blows it goes it knows not whither | F |
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| A profound grief an unknown sorrow | F |
| Wanders always my strange life thoro' | F |
| I know not ever what brings it hither | F |
| Nor whence it comes nor goes it whither | F |
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| III | A |
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| MODERN LOVE SONG | I |
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| Now that the evenfall is come | J |
| And the sun fills the flaring trees | K |
| And everything is mad lit dumb | J |
| And in the pauses of the breeze | K |
| A far voice seems to call me home | L |
| To haven beyond woods and leas | K |
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| I feel again how sharply stings | M |
| The spell which binds our troubled dust | N |
| With hint of divine frustrated things | M |
| The Soul's deep doubt and desperate trust | N |
| That She at sunset shall find wings | M |
| To bear her beyond NOW and MUST | N |
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| So place your head against my head | O |
| And set your lips upon my lips | P |
| That so I may be comforted | Q |
| For Ah the world so from me slips | P |
| To the World Sunset I am sped | O |
| Where Soul and Silence come to grips | P |
| And Love stands sore astonished | R |
Robert Nichols
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