Sunset And Moonrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD

All the west whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's glorious graveA
Fast with seals of light and fire and cloud that light and fire illumeB
Glows at heart and kindles earth and heaven with joyous blush and bloomB
Warm and wide as life and glad of death that only slays to saveA
As a tide reconquered sea rock lies aflush with the influent waveA
Lies the light aflush with darkness lapped about by lustrous gloomB
Even as life with death and fame with time and memory with the tombB
Where a dead man hath for vassals Fame the serf and Time the slaveA
Far from earth as heaven the steadfast light withdrawn superb suspenseC
Burns in dumb divine expansion of illimitable flowerD
Moonrise whets the shadow's edges keen as noontide hence and thenceC
Glows the presence from us passing shines and passes not the powerD
Souls arise whose word remembered is as spirit within the senseC
All the hours are theirs of all the seasons death has but his hourD

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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