In A Dark Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCADDEFGHIJ AKDALL FMMNOO

In a dark time the eye begins to seeA
I meet my shadow in the deepening shadeB
I hear my echo in the echoing woodC
A lord of nature weeping to a treeA
I live between the heron and the wrenD
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the denD
What's madness but nobility of soulE
At odds with circumstance The day's on fireF
I know the purity of pure despairG
My shadow pinned against a sweating wallH
That place among the rocks is it a caveI
Or a winding path The edge is what I haveJ
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A steady storm of correspondencesA
A night flowing with birds a ragged moonK
And in broad day the midnight come againD
A man goes far to find out what he isA
Death of the self in a long tearless nightL
All natural shapes blazing unnatural lightL
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Dark dark my light and darker my desireF
My soul like some heat maddened summer flyM
Keeps buzzing at the sill Which I is IM
A fallen man I climb out of my fearN
The mind enters itself and God the mindO
And one is One free in the tearing windO

Theodore Roethke



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