In A Dark Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADDEFGHIJ AKDALL FMMNOO| In a dark time the eye begins to see | A |
| I meet my shadow in the deepening shade | B |
| I hear my echo in the echoing wood | C |
| A lord of nature weeping to a tree | A |
| I live between the heron and the wren | D |
| Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den | D |
| What's madness but nobility of soul | E |
| At odds with circumstance The day's on fire | F |
| I know the purity of pure despair | G |
| My shadow pinned against a sweating wall | H |
| That place among the rocks is it a cave | I |
| Or a winding path The edge is what I have | J |
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| A steady storm of correspondences | A |
| A night flowing with birds a ragged moon | K |
| And in broad day the midnight come again | D |
| A man goes far to find out what he is | A |
| Death of the self in a long tearless night | L |
| All natural shapes blazing unnatural light | L |
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| Dark dark my light and darker my desire | F |
| My soul like some heat maddened summer fly | M |
| Keeps buzzing at the sill Which I is I | M |
| A fallen man I climb out of my fear | N |
| The mind enters itself and God the mind | O |
| And one is One free in the tearing wind | O |
Theodore Roethke
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