Thirty Sonnets: Sonnet 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADDAEFGGEF| Down 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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