Love In Twilight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ| There is darkness behind the light and the pale light drips | A |
| Cold on vague shapes and figures that half seen loom | B |
| Like the carven prows of proud far triumphing ships | A |
| And the firelight wavers and changes about the room | B |
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| As the three logs crackle and burn with a small still sound | C |
| Half blotting with dark the deeper dark of her hair | D |
| Where she lies head pillowed on arm and one hand curved round | C |
| To shield the white face and neck from the faint thin glare | D |
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| Gently she breathes and the long limbs lie at ease | E |
| And the rise and fall of the young slim virginal breast | F |
| Is as certain sweet as the march of slow wind through trees | E |
| Or the great soft passage of clouds in a sky at rest | F |
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| I kneel and our arms enlace and we kiss long long | G |
| I am drowned in her as in sleep There is no more pain | H |
| Only the rustle of flames like a broken song | G |
| That rings half heard through the dusty halls of the brain | H |
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| One shaking and fragile moment of ecstasy | I |
| While the grey gloom flutters and beats like an owl above | J |
| And I would not move or speak for the sea or the sky | K |
| Or the flame bright wings of the miraculous Dove | J |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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