Waking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAACA DEDFGHGGB IHJHKLKML NANAOAPQA DNDNQMQNMM| Darkness had stretched its colour | A |
| Deep blue across the pane | B |
| No cloud to make night duller | A |
| No moon with its tarnish stain | B |
| But only here and there a star | A |
| One sharp point of frosty fire | A |
| Hanging infinitely far | A |
| In mockery of our life and death | C |
| And all our small desire | A |
| - | |
| Now in this hour of waking | D |
| From under brows of stone | E |
| A new pale day is breaking | D |
| And the deep night is gone | F |
| Sordid now and mean and small | G |
| The daylight world is seen again | H |
| With only the veils of mist that fall | G |
| Deaf and muffling over all | G |
| To hide its ugliness and pain | B |
| - | |
| But to day this dawn of meanness | I |
| Shines in my eyes as when | H |
| The new world's brightness and cleanness | J |
| Broke on the first of men | H |
| For the light that shows the huddled things | K |
| Of this close pressing earth | L |
| Shines also on your face and brings | K |
| All its dear beauty back to me | M |
| In a new miracle of birth | L |
| - | |
| I see you asleep and unpassioned | N |
| White faced in the dusk of your hair | A |
| Your beauty so fleetingly fashioned | N |
| That it filled me once with despair | A |
| To look on its exquisite transience | O |
| And think that our love and thought and laughter | A |
| Puff out with the death of our flickering sense | P |
| While we pass ever on and away | Q |
| Towards some blank hereafter | A |
| - | |
| But now I am happy knowing | D |
| That swift time is our friend | N |
| And that our love's passionate glowing | D |
| Though it turn ash in the end | N |
| Is a rose of fire that must blossom its way | Q |
| Through temporal stuff nor else could be | M |
| More than a nothing Into day | Q |
| The boundless spaces of night contract | N |
| And in your opening eyes I see | M |
| Night born in day in time eternity | M |
Aldous Huxley
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