My Spectre Around Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHIJ KKJI AALL MMNN| My spectre around me night and day | A |
| Like a wild beast guards my way | A |
| My emanation far within | B |
| Weeps incessantly for my sin | B |
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| A fathomless and boundless deep | C |
| There we wander there we weep | C |
| On the hungry craving wind | D |
| My spectre follows thee behind | D |
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| He scents thy footsteps in the snow | E |
| Wheresoever thou dost go | E |
| Through the wintry hail and rain | F |
| When wilt thou return again | G |
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| Dost thou not in pride and scorn | H |
| Fill with tempests all my morn | H |
| And with jealousies and fears | I |
| Fill my pleasant nights with tears | J |
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| Seven of my sweet loves thy knife | K |
| Has bereaved of their life | K |
| Their marble tombs I built with tears | J |
| And with cold and shuddering fears | I |
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| Seven more loves weep night and day | A |
| Round the tombs where my loves lay | A |
| And seven more loves attend each night | L |
| Around my couch with torches bright | L |
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| And seven more loves in my bed | M |
| Crown with wine my mournful head | M |
| Pitying and forgiving all | N |
| Thy transgressions great and small | N |
William Blake
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