Original poem reprinted online here: "In a Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke Originally read: May 25, 2013 More information about the Poet: Theodore Roethke The rhyme scheme for these sestets are kind of off. The last couplets for each stanza have monosyllabic apparent rhymes; meanwhile, the abba rhyme scheme for the first four lines of each stanza are off. Not exact rhymes, not even sight rhymes, but connected through a single letter like a strong "r" or an "n." And even then I feel like I'm stretching the form of the poem like in the first line of this poem, "In a dark time, the eye begins to see." The speaker isn't necessarily in the dark -- the focus here is a time frame that is described as dark in which the speaker meets his "shadow" in the deepening, "shade." All these references allude to a direct Jungian psychology. The speaker is meeting the hidden self. Yet the meeting in itself is framed within repetitio...
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