Sonnet I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADDAEFGGEFDown the strait vistas where a city street | A |
Fades in pale dust and vaporous distances | B |
Stained with far fumes the light grows less and less | C |
And the sky reddens round the day's retreat | A |
Now out of orient chambers cool and sweet | A |
Like Nature's pure lustration Dusk comes down | D |
Now the lamps brighten and the quickening town | D |
Rings with the trample of returning feet | A |
And Pleasure risen from her own warm mould | E |
Sunk all the drowsy and unloved daylight | F |
In layers of odorous softness Paphian girls | G |
Cover with gauze with satin and with pearls | G |
Crown and about her spangly vestments fold | E |
The ermine of the empire of the Night | F |
Alan Seeger
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