Nocturne ["betimes, I Seem To See In Dreams"] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDB EFGGEF HIJJHI KLMMKL NOPPNO QRLLQR CSTUCS VWXXXW LXXXLX BLLLBL| Betimes I seem to see in dreams | A |
| What when awake I may not see | B |
| Can night be God's more than the day | C |
| Do stars not suns best light his way | C |
| Who knoweth Blended lights and shades | D |
| Arch aisles down which He walks to me | B |
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| I hear him coming in the night | E |
| Afar and yet I know not how | F |
| His steps make music low and sweet | G |
| Sometimes the nails are in his feet | G |
| Does darkness give God better light | E |
| Than day to find a weary brow | F |
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| Does darkness give man brighter rays | H |
| To find the God in sunshine lost | I |
| Must shadows wrap the trysting place | J |
| Where God meets hearts with gentlest grace | J |
| Who knoweth it God hath His ways | H |
| For every soul here sorrow tossed | I |
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| The hours of day are like the waves | K |
| That fret against the shores of sin | L |
| They touch the human everywhere | M |
| The Bright Divine fades in their glare | M |
| And God's sweet voice the spirit craves | K |
| Is heard too faintly in the din | L |
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| When all the senses are awake | N |
| The mortal presses overmuch | O |
| Upon the great immortal part | P |
| And God seems further from the heart | P |
| Must souls like skies when day dawns break | N |
| Lose star by star at sunlight's touch | O |
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| But when the sun kneels in the west | Q |
| And grandly sinks as great hearts sink | R |
| And in his sinking flings adown | L |
| Bright blessings from his fading crown | L |
| The stars begin their song of rest | Q |
| And shadows make the thoughtless think | R |
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| The human seems to fade away | C |
| And down the starred and shadowed skies | S |
| The heavenly comes as memories come | T |
| Of home to hearts afar from home | U |
| And thro' the darkness after day | C |
| Many a winged angel flies | S |
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| And somehow tho' the eyes see less | V |
| Our spirits seem to see the more | W |
| When we look thro' night's shadow bars | X |
| The soul sees more than shining stars | X |
| Yea sees the very loveliness | X |
| That rests upon the Golden Shore | W |
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| Strange reveries steal o'er us then | L |
| Like keyless chords of instruments | X |
| With music's soul without the notes | X |
| And subtle sad and sweet there floats | X |
| A melody not made by men | L |
| Nor ever heard by outer sense | X |
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| And what has been and what will be | B |
| And what is not but might have been | L |
| The dim to be the mournful gone | L |
| The little things life rested on | L |
| In Long ago's give tone not key | B |
| To reveries beyond our ken | L |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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