Renée

Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945



Rain, and the night, and the old familiar door,
And the archway dim, and the roadway desolate;
Faces that pass, and faces, and more, yet more:
Renée! come, for I wait.
 
Pallid out of the darkness, adorably white,
Pale as the spirit of rain, with the night in her hair,
Renée undulates, shadow-like, under the light,
Into the outer air.
 
Mournful, beautiful, calm with that vague unrest,
Sad with that sensitive, vaguely ironical mouth;
Eyes that flame with the loveliest, deadliest
Fire of her passionate youth;
 
Mournful, beautiful, sister of night and rain,
Elemental, fashioned of tears and fire,
Ever desiring, ever desired in vain,
Mother of vain desire;
 
Renée comes to me, she the sorceress, Fate,
Subtly insensible, softly invincible, she:
Renée, who waits for another, for whom I wait,
To linger a moment with me.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAB CDCD XXXX EFEF BGBG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 815
Words 139
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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