The White Moth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIJIKK LGLGMM NONODD| IF a leaf rustled she would start | A |
| And yet she died a year ago | B |
| How had so frail a thing the heart | A |
| To journey where she trembled so | B |
| And do they turn and turn in fright | C |
| Those little feet in so much night | C |
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| The light above the poet s head | D |
| Streamed on the page and on the cloth | E |
| And twice and thrice there buffeted | F |
| On the black pane a white winged moth | E |
| T was Annie s soul that beat outside | G |
| And Open open open cried | G |
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| I could not find the way to God | H |
| There were too many flaming suns | I |
| For signposts and the fearful road | J |
| Led over wastes where millions | I |
| Of tangled comets hissed and burned | K |
| I was bewildered and I turned | K |
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| O it was easy then I knew | L |
| Your window and no star beside | G |
| Look up and take me back to you | L |
| He rose and thrust the window wide | G |
| T was but because his brain was hot | M |
| With rhyming for he heard her not | M |
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| But poets polishing a phrase | N |
| Show anger over trivial things | O |
| And as she blundered in the blaze | N |
| Towards him on ecstatic wings | O |
| He raised a hand and smote her dead | D |
| Then wrote That I had died instead | D |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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