Sorcery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACB DEDDE FGFFG HIHJI KLKKM NHNHN FDFDBF| What voice is that I hear | A |
| Crying across the pool | B |
| It is the voice of Pan you hear | A |
| Crying his sorceries shrill and clear | C |
| In the twilight dim and cool | B |
| - | |
| What song is it he sings | D |
| Echoing from afar | E |
| While the sweet swallow bends her wings | D |
| Filling the air with twitterings | D |
| Beneath the brightening star | E |
| - | |
| The woodman answered me | F |
| His faggot on his back | G |
| Seek not the face of Pan to see | F |
| Flee from his clear note summoning thee | F |
| To darkness deep and black | G |
| - | |
| He dwells in thickest shade | H |
| Piping his notes forlorn | I |
| Of sorrow never to be allayed | H |
| Turn from his coverts sad | J |
| Of twilight unto morn | I |
| - | |
| The woodman passed away | K |
| Along the forest path | L |
| His ax shone keen and grey | K |
| In the last beams of day | K |
| And all was still as death | M |
| - | |
| Only Pan singing sweet | N |
| Out of Earth's fragrant shade | H |
| I dreamed his eyes to meet | N |
| And found but shadow laid | H |
| Before my tired feet | N |
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| Comes no more dawn to me | F |
| Nor bird of open skies | D |
| Only his woods' deep gloom I see | F |
| Till at the end of all shall rise | D |
| Afar and tranquilly | B |
| Death's stretching sea | F |
Walter De La Mare
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