Midnight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGGHIHIJK LJMMJJJJNJNJDODO| 'Tis midnight o'er the dim mere's lonely bosom | A |
| Dark dusky windy midnight swift are driven | B |
| The swelling vapours onward every blossom | A |
| Bathes its bright petals in the tears of heaven | B |
| Imperfect half seen objects meet the sight | C |
| The other half our fancy must pourtray | D |
| A wan dull lengthen'd sheet of swimming light | C |
| Lies the broad lake the moon conceals her ray | D |
| Sketch'd faintly by a pale and lurid gleam | E |
| Shot thro' the glimmering clouds the lovely planet | F |
| Is shrouded in obscurity the scream | E |
| Of owl is silenc'd and the rocks of granite | F |
| Rise tall and drearily while damp and dank | G |
| Hang the thick willows on the reedy bank | G |
| Beneath the gurgling eddies slowly creep | H |
| Blacken'd by foliage and the glutting wave | I |
| That saps eternally the cold grey steep | H |
| Sounds heavily within the hollow cave | I |
| All earth is restless from his glossy wing | J |
| The heath fowl lifts his head at intervals | K |
| Wet driving rainy come the bursting squalls | L |
| All nature wears her dun dead covering | J |
| Tempest is gather'd and the brooding storm | M |
| Spreads its black mantle o'er the mountain's form | M |
| And mingled with the rising roar is swelling | J |
| From the far hunter's booth the blood hound's yelling | J |
| The water falls in various cadence chiming | J |
| Or in one loud unbroken sheet descending | J |
| Salute each other thro' the night's dark womb | N |
| The moaning pine trees to the wild blast bending | J |
| Are pictured faintly thro' the chequer'd gloom | N |
| The forests half way up the mountain climbing | J |
| Resound with crash of falling branches quiver | D |
| Their aged mossy trunks the startled doe | O |
| Leaps from her leafy lair the swelling river | D |
| Winds his broad stream majestic deep and slow | O |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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