The Dark Chateau Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEDE AFAGHIHI JKJLLELC MNMNLLLL LOLPQCQA| In dreams a dark ch teau | A |
| Stands ever open to me | B |
| In far ravines dream waters flow | C |
| Descending soundlessly | C |
| Above its peaks the eagle floats | D |
| Lone in a sunless sky | E |
| Mute are the golden woodland throats | D |
| Of the birds flitting by | E |
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| No voice is audible The wind | A |
| Sleeps in its peace | F |
| No flower of the light can find | A |
| Refuge 'neath its trees | G |
| Only the darkening ivy climbs | H |
| Mingled with wilding rose | I |
| And cypress morn and evening time's | H |
| Black shadow throws | I |
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| All vacant and unknown | J |
| Only the dreamer steps | K |
| From stone to hollow stone | J |
| Where the green moss sleeps | L |
| Peers at the river in its deeps | L |
| The eagle lone in the sky | E |
| While the dew of evening drips | L |
| Coldly and silently | C |
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| Would that I could press in | M |
| Into each secret room | N |
| Would that my sleep bright eyes could win | M |
| To the inner gloom | N |
| Gaze from its high windows | L |
| Far down its mouldering walls | L |
| Where amber clear still Lethe flows | L |
| And foaming falls | L |
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| But ever as I gaze | L |
| From slumber soft doth come | O |
| Some touch my stagnant sense to raise | L |
| To its old earthly home | P |
| Fades then that sky serene | Q |
| And peak of ageless snow | C |
| Fades to a paling dawn lit green | Q |
| My dark ch teau | A |
Walter De La Mare
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