Armed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGG IJIJ GKGK LGLG| Give me to night to hide me in the shade | A |
| That neither moon nor star | B |
| May see the secret place where I am laid | A |
| Nor watch me from afar | B |
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| Let not the dark its prying ghosts employ | C |
| To peer on my retreat | D |
| And see the fragments of my broken toy | C |
| Lie scattered at my feet | D |
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| I fashioned it that idol of my own | E |
| Of metal strange and bright | F |
| I made my toy a god I raised a throne | E |
| To honour my delight | F |
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| This haunted byway of the grove was lit | G |
| With lamps my hand had trimmed | H |
| Before the altar in the midst of it | G |
| I kept their flame undimmed | G |
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| My steps turned ever to the hidden shrine | I |
| Aware or unaware | J |
| My soul dwelt only in that spot divine | I |
| And now a wreck lies there | J |
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| Give me to night to weep when dawn is spread | G |
| Beyond the heavy trees | K |
| And in the east the day is heralded | G |
| By cloud wrought companies | K |
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| I shall have gathered up my heart's desire | L |
| Broken destroyed adored | G |
| And from its splinters in a deathless fire | L |
| I shall have forged a sword | G |
Violet Jacob
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