Sunset And Moonrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCDAll the west whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's glorious grave | A |
Fast with seals of light and fire and cloud that light and fire illume | B |
Glows at heart and kindles earth and heaven with joyous blush and bloom | B |
Warm and wide as life and glad of death that only slays to save | A |
As a tide reconquered sea rock lies aflush with the influent wave | A |
Lies the light aflush with darkness lapped about by lustrous gloom | B |
Even as life with death and fame with time and memory with the tomb | B |
Where a dead man hath for vassals Fame the serf and Time the slave | A |
Far from earth as heaven the steadfast light withdrawn superb suspense | C |
Burns in dumb divine expansion of illimitable flower | D |
Moonrise whets the shadow's edges keen as noontide hence and thence | C |
Glows the presence from us passing shines and passes not the power | D |
Souls arise whose word remembered is as spirit within the sense | C |
All the hours are theirs of all the seasons death has but his hour | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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