At Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCAAEBFEFGG HHIDIIIIIIJJAAIDDKKL IIM NONOIDIA PQPQRSRSRTRT SUSSTITITSTSTITI IIIVLSILIVSO Hesper Phosphor far away | A |
Shining the first the last white star | B |
Hear st thou the strange the ghostly cry | C |
That moan of an ancient agony | D |
From purple forest to golden sky | C |
Shivering over the breathless bay | A |
It is not the wind that wakes with the day | A |
For see the gulls that wheel and call | E |
Beyond the tumbling white topped bar | B |
Catching the sun dawn on their wings | F |
Like snow flakes or like rose leaves fall | E |
Flutter and fall in airy rings | F |
And drift like lilies ruffling into blossom | G |
Upon a golden lake s unwrinkled bosom | G |
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Are not the forest s deep lashed fringes wet | H |
With tears Is not the voice of all regret | H |
Breaking out of the dark earth s heart | I |
She too she too has loved and lost and we | D |
We that remember our lost Arcady | I |
Have we not known we too | I |
The primal greenwood s arch of blue | I |
The radiant clouds at sunrise curled | I |
Around the brows of the golden world | I |
The marble temples washed with dew | I |
To which with rosy limbs aflame | J |
The violet eyed Thalassian came | J |
Came pitiless only to display | A |
How soon the youthful splendour dies away | A |
Came only to depart | I |
Laughing across the gray grown bitter sea | D |
For each man s life is earth s epitome | D |
And though the years bring more than aught they take | K |
Yet might his heart and hers well break | K |
Remembering how one prayer must still be vain | L |
How one fair hope is dead | I |
One passion quenched one glory fled | I |
With those first loves that never come again | M |
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How many how many generations | N |
Have heard that sigh in the dawn | O |
When the dark earth yearns to the unforgotten nations | N |
And the old loves withdrawn | O |
Old loves old lovers wonderful and unnumbered | I |
As waves on the wine dark sea | D |
Neath the tall white towers of Troy and the temples that slumbered | I |
In Thessaly | A |
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From the beautiful palaces from the miraculous portals | P |
The swift white feet are flown | Q |
They were taintless of dust the proud the peerless Immortals | P |
As they sped to their loftier throne | Q |
Perchance they are there earth dreams on the shores of Hesper | R |
Her rosy bosomed Hours | S |
Listening the wild fresh forest s enchanted whisper | R |
Crowned with its new strange flowers | S |
Listening the great new ocean s triumphant thunder | R |
On the stainless unknown shore | T |
While that perilous queen of the world s delight and wonder | R |
Comes white from the foam once more | T |
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When the mists divide with the dawn o er those glittering waters | S |
Do they gaze over unoared seas | U |
Naiad and nymph and the woodland s rose crowned daughters | S |
And the Oceanides | S |
Do they sing together perchance in that diamond splendour | T |
That world of dawn and dew | I |
With eyelids twitching to tears and with eyes grown tender | T |
The sweet old songs they knew | I |
The songs of Greece Ah with harp strings mute do they falter | T |
As the earth like a small star pales | S |
When the heroes launch their ship by the smoking altar | T |
Does a memory lure their sails | S |
Far far away do their hearts resume the story | T |
That never on earth was told | I |
When all those urgent oars on the waste of glory | T |
Cast up its gold | I |
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Are not the forest fringes wet | I |
With tears Is not the voice of all regret | I |
Breaking out of the dark earth s heart | I |
She too she too has loved and lost and though | V |
She turned last night in disdain | L |
Away from the sunset embers | S |
From her soul she can never depart | I |
She can never depart from her pain | L |
Vainly she strives to forget | I |
Beautiful in her woe | V |
She awakes in the dawn and remembers | S |
Alfred Noyes
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