Once Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLMNOO| That day her eyes were deep as night | A |
| She had the motion of the rose | B |
| The bird that veers across the light | A |
| The waterfall that leaps and throws | B |
| Its irised spindrift to the sun | C |
| She seemed a wind of music passing on | D |
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| Alone I saw her that one day | E |
| Stand in the window of my life | F |
| Her sudden hand melted away | E |
| Under my lips and without strife | F |
| I held her in my arms awhile | G |
| And drew into my lips her living smile | G |
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| Now many a day ago and year | H |
| Since when I dream and lie awake | I |
| In summer nights to feel her near | H |
| And from the heavy darkness break | I |
| Glitters till all my spirit swims | J |
| And her hand hovers on my shaking limbs | J |
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| If once again before I die | K |
| I drank the laughter of her mouth | L |
| And quenched my fever utterly | M |
| I say and should it cost my youth | N |
| 'T were well for I no more should wait | O |
| Hammering midnight on the doors of fate | O |
Trumbull Stickney
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