Once As The Aureole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDDDD EDEDD DFDFF GHGHH DIDII| Once as the aureole | A |
| Day left the earth | B |
| Faded a twilight soul | A |
| Memory had birth | B |
| Young were her sister souls Sorrow and Mirth | B |
| - | |
| Dark mirrors are her eyes | C |
| Wherein who gaze | D |
| See wan effulgencies | D |
| Flicker and blaze | D |
| Lorn fleeting shadows of beautiful days | D |
| - | |
| Scan those deep mirrors well | E |
| After long years | D |
| Lo what aforetime fell | E |
| In rain of tears | D |
| In radiant glamour mist now reappears | D |
| - | |
| See old wild gladness | D |
| Tamed now and coy | F |
| Grief that was madness | D |
| Turned into joy | F |
| Fate cannot harry them now nor annoy | F |
| - | |
| Down from yon throbbing blue | G |
| Passionless fair | H |
| Still faces look on you | G |
| Sunlit their hair | H |
| With a slow smile at your pleasure and care | H |
| - | |
| Life and death murmurings | D |
| From their lips go | I |
| In vaster music rings | D |
| Outward they flow | I |
| Tenderer wilder than songs that we know | I |
Thomas Runciman
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