The Raven's Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BDBDEE FGFGBB BHBHII JKJKLL MNMNOO BIBILL PMPMQQ MRRRMM| Seabird elemental sprite | A |
| Moulded of the sun and spray | B |
| Raven dreary flake of night | A |
| Drifting in the eye of day | B |
| What in common have ye two | C |
| Meeting 'twixt the blue and blue | C |
| - | |
| Thou to eastward carriest | B |
| The keen savour of the foam | D |
| Thou dost bear unto the west | B |
| Fragrance from thy woody home | D |
| Where perchance a house is thine | E |
| Odorous of the oozy pine | E |
| - | |
| Eastward thee thy proper cares | F |
| Things of mighty moment call | G |
| Thee to westward thine affairs | F |
| Summon weighty matters all | G |
| I where land and sea contest | B |
| Watch you eastward watch you west | B |
| - | |
| Till in snares of fancy caught | B |
| Mystically changed ye seem | H |
| And the bird becomes a thought | B |
| And the thought becomes a dream | H |
| And the dream outspread on high | I |
| Lords it o'er the abject sky | I |
| - | |
| Surely I have known before | J |
| Phantoms of the shapes ye be | K |
| Haunters of another shore | J |
| 'Leaguered by another sea | K |
| There my wanderings night and morn | L |
| Reconcile me to the bourn | L |
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| There the bird of happy wings | M |
| Wafts the ocean news I crave | N |
| Rumours of an isle he brings | M |
| Gemlike on the golden wave | N |
| But the baleful beak and plume | O |
| Scatter immelodious gloom | O |
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| Though the flow'rs be faultless made | B |
| Perfectly to live and die | I |
| Though the bright clouds bloom and fade | B |
| Flow'rlike 'midst a meadowy sky | I |
| Where this raven roams forlorn | L |
| Veins of midnight flaw the morn | L |
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| He not less will croak and croak | P |
| As he ever caws and caws | M |
| Till the starry dance he broke | P |
| Till the sphery p an pause | M |
| And the universal chime | Q |
| Falter out of tune and time | Q |
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| Coils the labyrinthine sea | M |
| Duteous to the lunar will | R |
| But some discord stealthily | R |
| Vexes the world ditty still | R |
| And the bird that caws and caws | M |
| Clasps creation with his claws | M |
William Watson
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