The Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDD EFFGAAHHHEH FIIF JFDJF| Shapeless and grim | A |
| A Shadow dim | A |
| O'erhung the ways | B |
| And darkened all my days | B |
| And all who saw | C |
| With bated breath | D |
| Said It is Death | D |
| - | |
| And I in weakness | E |
| Slipping towards the Night | F |
| In sore affright | F |
| Looked up And lo | G |
| No Spectre grim | A |
| But just a dim | A |
| Sweet face | H |
| A sweet high mother face | H |
| A face like Christ's Own Mother's face | H |
| Alight with tenderness | E |
| And grace | H |
| - | |
| Thou art not Death I cried | F |
| For Life's supremest fantasy | I |
| Had never thus envisaged Death to me | I |
| Thou art not Death the End | F |
| - | |
| In accents winning | J |
| Came the answer Friend | F |
| There is no Death | D |
| I am the Beginning | J |
| Not the End | F |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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