The Glimpse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GEHE IJKJ EEKE LLCL| Art thou asleep or have thy wings | A |
| Wearied of my unchanging skies | B |
| Or haply is it fading dreams | C |
| Are in my eyes | B |
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| Not even an echo in my heart | D |
| Tells me the courts thy feet trod last | E |
| Bare as a leafless wood it is | F |
| The summer past | E |
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| My inmost mind is like a book | G |
| The reader dulls with lassitude | E |
| Wherein the same old lovely words | H |
| Sound poor and rude | E |
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| Yet through this vapid surface I | I |
| Seem to see old time deeps I see | J |
| Past the dark painting of the hour | K |
| Life's ecstasy | J |
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| Only a moment as when day | E |
| Is set and in the shade of night | E |
| Through all the clouds that compassed her | K |
| Stoops into sight | E |
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| Pale changeless everlasting Dian | L |
| Gleams on the prone Endymion | L |
| Troubles the dulness of his dreams | C |
| And then is gone | L |
Walter De La Mare
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