Treachery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFC| She had amid her ringlets bound | A |
| Green leaves to rival their dark hue | B |
| How could such locks with beauty bound | A |
| Dry up their dew | B |
| Wither them through and through | B |
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| She had within her dark eyes lit | C |
| Sweet fires to burn all doubt away | D |
| Yet did those fires in darkness lit | C |
| Burn but a day | D |
| Not even till twilight stay | D |
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| She had within a dusk of words | E |
| A vow in simple splendour set | F |
| How in the memory of such words | E |
| Could she forget | F |
| That vow the soul of it | C |
Walter De La Mare
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