Love's Apparition And Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACACDADBEBFEFAAG AGAHAIIA| Like a lone Arab old and blind | A |
| Some caravan had left behind | A |
| Who sits beside a ruin'd well | B |
| Where the shy sand asps bask and swell | B |
| And now he hangs his ag 'e d head aslant | A |
| And listens for a human sound in vain | C |
| And now the aid which Heaven alone can grant | A |
| Upturns his eyeless face from Heaven to gain | C |
| Even thus in vacant mood one sultry hour | D |
| Resting my eye upon a drooping plant | A |
| With brow low bent within my garden bower | D |
| I sate upon the couch of camomile | B |
| And whether 'twas a transient sleep perchance | E |
| Flitted across the idle brain the while | B |
| I watch'd the sickly calm with aimless scope | F |
| In my own heart or that indeed a trance | E |
| Turn'd my eye inward thee O genial Hope | F |
| Love's elder sister thee did I behold | A |
| Drest as a bridesmaid but all pale and cold | A |
| With roseless cheek all pale and cold and dim | G |
| Lie lifeless at my feet | A |
| And then came Love a sylph in bridal trim | G |
| And stood beside my seat | A |
| She bent and kiss'd her sister's lips | H |
| As she was wont to do | A |
| Alas 'twas but a chilling breath | I |
| Woke just enough of life in death | I |
| To make Hope die anew | A |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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