At Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCAAEBFEFGG HHIDIIIIIIJJAAIDDKKL IIM NONOIDIA PQPQRSRSRTRT SUSSTITITSTSTITI IIIVLSILIVS

O Hesper Phosphor far awayA
Shining the first the last white starB
Hear st thou the strange the ghostly cryC
That moan of an ancient agonyD
From purple forest to golden skyC
Shivering over the breathless bayA
It is not the wind that wakes with the dayA
For see the gulls that wheel and callE
Beyond the tumbling white topped barB
Catching the sun dawn on their wingsF
Like snow flakes or like rose leaves fallE
Flutter and fall in airy ringsF
And drift like lilies ruffling into blossomG
Upon a golden lake s unwrinkled bosomG
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Are not the forest s deep lashed fringes wetH
With tears Is not the voice of all regretH
Breaking out of the dark earth s heartI
She too she too has loved and lost and weD
We that remember our lost ArcadyI
Have we not known we tooI
The primal greenwood s arch of blueI
The radiant clouds at sunrise curledI
Around the brows of the golden worldI
The marble temples washed with dewI
To which with rosy limbs aflameJ
The violet eyed Thalassian cameJ
Came pitiless only to displayA
How soon the youthful splendour dies awayA
Came only to departI
Laughing across the gray grown bitter seaD
For each man s life is earth s epitomeD
And though the years bring more than aught they takeK
Yet might his heart and hers well breakK
Remembering how one prayer must still be vainL
How one fair hope is deadI
One passion quenched one glory fledI
With those first loves that never come againM
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How many how many generationsN
Have heard that sigh in the dawnO
When the dark earth yearns to the unforgotten nationsN
And the old loves withdrawnO
Old loves old lovers wonderful and unnumberedI
As waves on the wine dark seaD
Neath the tall white towers of Troy and the temples that slumberedI
In ThessalyA
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From the beautiful palaces from the miraculous portalsP
The swift white feet are flownQ
They were taintless of dust the proud the peerless ImmortalsP
As they sped to their loftier throneQ
Perchance they are there earth dreams on the shores of HesperR
Her rosy bosomed HoursS
Listening the wild fresh forest s enchanted whisperR
Crowned with its new strange flowersS
Listening the great new ocean s triumphant thunderR
On the stainless unknown shoreT
While that perilous queen of the world s delight and wonderR
Comes white from the foam once moreT
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When the mists divide with the dawn o er those glittering watersS
Do they gaze over unoared seasU
Naiad and nymph and the woodland s rose crowned daughtersS
And the OceanidesS
Do they sing together perchance in that diamond splendourT
That world of dawn and dewI
With eyelids twitching to tears and with eyes grown tenderT
The sweet old songs they knewI
The songs of Greece Ah with harp strings mute do they falterT
As the earth like a small star palesS
When the heroes launch their ship by the smoking altarT
Does a memory lure their sailsS
Far far away do their hearts resume the storyT
That never on earth was toldI
When all those urgent oars on the waste of gloryT
Cast up its goldI
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Are not the forest fringes wetI
With tears Is not the voice of all regretI
Breaking out of the dark earth s heartI
She too she too has loved and lost and thoughV
She turned last night in disdainL
Away from the sunset embersS
From her soul she can never departI
She can never depart from her painL
Vainly she strives to forgetI
Beautiful in her woeV
She awakes in the dawn and remembersS

Alfred Noyes



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