I Met At Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMO ABAB| I met at eve the Prince of Sleep | A |
| His was a still and lovely face | B |
| He wandered through a valley steep | A |
| Lovely in a lonely place | B |
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| His garb was grey of lavender | C |
| About his brows a poppy wreath | D |
| Burned like dim coals and everywhere | E |
| The air was sweeter for his breath | F |
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| His twilight feet no sandals wore | G |
| His eyes shone faint in their own flame | H |
| Fair moths that gloomed his steps before | G |
| Seemed letters of his lovely name | H |
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| His house is in the mountain ways | I |
| A phantom house of misty walls | J |
| Whose golden flocks at evening graze | I |
| And witch the moon with muffled calls | J |
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| Upwelling from his shadowy springs | K |
| Sweet waters shake a trembling sound | L |
| There flit the hoot owl's silent wings | K |
| There hath his web the silkworm wound | L |
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| Dark in his pools clear visions lurk | M |
| And rosy as with morning buds | N |
| Along his dales of broom and birk | M |
| Dreams haunt his solitary woods | O |
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| I met at eve the Prince of Sleep | A |
| His was a still and lovely face | B |
| He wandered through a valley steep | A |
| Lovely in a lonely place | B |
Walter De La Mare
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