Midnight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDF GHGH IJIK CLCL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST UOUO VWV W XYXY ZA2ZA2 B2C2B2C2 D2E2D2E2 F2G2F2G2 H2I2H2I2 RYRY J2K2J2K2 L2M2L2N2 O2A2O2A2

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The night is clear and still The moon rides highB
The green leaves whisper where the soft winds blowC
Above the stars shine in a sapphire skyB
The city sleeps belowC
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Sleeps Nay The million fibred heart is wrungD
With wild desire and ceaseless pain and fearE
Could its dumb anguish find a fitting tongueD
The very dead would hearF
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Under these quiet roofs this silvery hazeG
How many a captive spirit wakes and weepsH
How many a sorrow hid from human gazeG
Each shadowy dwelling keepsH
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The struggling men the lonely maids unwedI
The desolate mothers and the martyred wivesJ
The starving little ones that cry for breadI
Still live their suffering livesK
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Though moon shines fair and winds are breathing lowC
Though the great dream like city lies in lightL
The smoke of all that seething human woeC
Darkens my mind to nightL
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Brothers for whom the world can find no placeM
Brothers and sisters born to want and wrongN
Born weak and maimed to run a hopeless raceM
Against the hale and strongN
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How can I rest while they are racked with painO
While they toil on with toil that cannot ceaseP
While hungry children wail for bread in vainO
How can I sleep in peaceP
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Ah hapless fate To hope to fail to spendQ
From chilling dawn till midnight shadows fallR
Perchance to gain no haven at the endQ
No new world after allR
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When poor brief hopes and joys have passed awayS
When the long toil is done and pain is pastT
To reach the limit of life's little dayS
And find naught else at lastT
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When strength is spent when soul and spirit sinkU
With helpless hands outstretched and nerveless brainO
To stand alone upon that dreadful brinkU
And cry for light in vainO
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Poor mortal wanderers in immortal realmsV
For whom no staff avails no beacons shineW
My kindred soul their burden overwhelmsV
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My brothers' woes are mineW
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For me the night has come the day is doneX
A wall of darkness hides both sea and shoreY
My little lamps have failed me one by oneX
I grope and crawl no moreY
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Where am I oh where am I I can feelZ
To feel my pain but neither hear nor seeA2
My heart is faint my brain begins to reelZ
O God speak Thou to meA2
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Help me Or in Thy pity take me henceB2
While feeling heart and thinking brain are wholeC2
Or give me any rag of carnal senseB2
To wrap my naked soulC2
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Some common cloak of vulgar hopes and fearsD2
Some earth spun veil that shall be warm and stoutE2
To keep this infinite Silence from mine earsD2
To shut this Darkness outE2
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The mocking moon shines on The flowers are sweetF2
The night is still The winds are breathing balmG2
The silver city clustered at my feetF2
Seems bathed in light and calmG2
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But I I choke in this grief laden airH2
I turn and weep I close my window nowI2
One voice breaks forth from my profound despairH2
Beloved where art thouI2
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She sleeps She stirs She hears the lightest fallR
Of my hushed footsteps on her chamber floorY
Her spirit answers to my spirit's callR
And I take heart once moreY
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She draws me down upon that faithful breastJ2
I clasp her close those sweetest lips I kissK2
And soul and body in her arms at restJ2
Swim in deep seas of blissK2
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She makes me strong with stronger Fate to copeL2
Fresh fire to mine her beating pulses giveM2
O my true mate in thee alone I hopeL2
In thee alone I liveN2
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O love till blood is cold and brain is dustO2
I can fight on if thou wilt fight with meA2
If I can shelter in thy truth and trustO2
And bear life's woes with theeA2

Ada Cambridge



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