A Ballad Of The Mist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IJKJ LMNM OHPH QLRL STUT VWFW XYZY A2B2C2B2 D2VE2V| I love the Lady of Merle he said | A |
| She is not for thee her suitor cried | B |
| And in the valley the lovers fought | C |
| By the salt river's tide | B |
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| The braver fell on the dewy sward | D |
| The unloved lover returned once more | E |
| In yellow satin the lady came | F |
| And met him at the door | E |
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| Hast thou heard dark Edith laughed he grim | G |
| Poor Hugh hath craved thee many a day | H |
| Soon would it have been too late for him | G |
| His low born will to say | H |
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| I struck a blade where lay his heart's love | I |
| And voice for thee have I left him none | J |
| To brag he still seeks thee over the hills | K |
| When thou and I are one | J |
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| Fearless across the wide country | L |
| Rode the dark Lady Edith of Merle | M |
| She looked at the headlands soft with haze | N |
| And the moor's mists of pearl | M |
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| The moon it struggled to see her pass | O |
| Through its half lit veils of driving gray | H |
| But moonbeams were slower than the steed | P |
| That Edith rode away | H |
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| Oh what was her guerdon and her haste | Q |
| While cried the far screech owl in the tree | L |
| And to her heart crept its note so lone | R |
| Beating tremulously | L |
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| About her a black scarf floated thin | S |
| And over her cheek the mist fell cold | T |
| And shuddered the moon between its rifts | U |
| Of dark cloud's silvery fold | T |
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| Oh white fire of the nightly sky | V |
| When burns the moon's wonder wide and far | W |
| And every cloud illumed with flame | F |
| Engulfs a shaken star | W |
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| Bright as comes morning from the hill | X |
| There comes a face to her lover's eyes | Y |
| Her love she tells and he dying smiles | Z |
| And smiles yet in the skies | Y |
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| He is dead and closer breathe the mists | A2 |
| He is dead the owlet moans remote | B2 |
| He is buried and the moon draws near | C2 |
| To gaze and hide and float | B2 |
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| Fearless within the churchyard's spell | D2 |
| The white browed lady doth stand and sigh | V |
| She loves the mist and the grave and the moon | E2 |
| And the owl's quivering cry | V |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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