The Frontier-land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHAJKJGLML NOPQRSTSGUOUGCVCGVWV| YOU of the past are you present | A |
| Draw nearer my heart is sore | B |
| Was yours the fall of the foot in the hall | C |
| Was yours the face at the door | B |
| As I lifted my eyes I saw you | D |
| You vanished and all was still | E |
| And only outside the white owl cried | F |
| And the moon stared over the hill | E |
| Wan blue were your eyes O Shadow | G |
| And paler your aspect than seems | H |
| The mystical star that glimmers afar | I |
| In a land of mysterious dreams | H |
| O Shadow the past is present | A |
| And empty your coffin and tomb | J |
| Draw near draw near chill child of fear | K |
| From the frontier land of Gloom | J |
| Did you know that I loved you Shadow | G |
| Did you guess whence the violets came | L |
| And the delicate heart with its Cupid dart | M |
| All opal and ruby flame | L |
| Ah once brown gold were the lashes | N |
| That shadowed your dreaming eyes | O |
| And your teeth were pearl 'neath the coral curl | P |
| Of twin portals of Paradise | Q |
| And warmer your cheeks were and softer | R |
| Alas they are pale and cold | S |
| Than the rose of the East or the wine of the feast | T |
| Red rimming its carven gold | S |
| It was all so sad O Shadow | G |
| And you faded away so soon | U |
| Like a note that flies and fades and dies | O |
| Ere it grows to a golden tune | U |
| Gone utterly gone O Shadow | G |
| No whisper no word let fall | C |
| No light is shed and the moon is dead | V |
| And a chill creeps up the hall | C |
| I shall follow and follow you Shadow | G |
| Till the sun remote and red | V |
| Burns like a spark and dim and dark | W |
| Rise up the hosts of the dead | V |
Roderic Quinn
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