New York At Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDBDD AEAEEFEFF AAAAAGAGG AHAHIJHKK| A near horizon whose sharp jags | A |
| Cut brutally into a sky | B |
| Of leaden heaviness and crags | A |
| Of houses lift their masonry | C |
| Ugly and foul and chimneys lie | B |
| And snort outlined against the gray | D |
| Of lowhung cloud I hear the sigh | B |
| The goaded city gives not day | D |
| Nor night can ease her heart her anguished labours stay | D |
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| Below straight streets monotonous | A |
| From north and south from east and west | E |
| Stretch glittering and luminous | A |
| Above one tower tops the rest | E |
| And holds aloft man's constant quest | E |
| Time Joyless emblem of the greed | F |
| Of millions robber of the best | E |
| Which earth can give the vulgar creed | F |
| Has seared upon the night its flaming ruthless screed | F |
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| O Night Whose soothing presence brings | A |
| The quiet shining of the stars | A |
| O Night Whose cloak of darkness clings | A |
| So intimately close that scars | A |
| Are hid from our own eyes Beggars | A |
| By day our wealth is having night | G |
| To burn our souls before altars | A |
| Dim and tree shadowed where the light | G |
| Is shed from a young moon mysteriously bright | G |
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| Where art thou hiding where thy peace | A |
| This is the hour but thou art not | H |
| Will waking tumult never cease | A |
| Hast thou thy votary forgot | H |
| Nature forsakes this man begot | I |
| And festering wilderness and now | J |
| The long still hours are here no jot | H |
| Of dear communing do I know | K |
| Instead the glaring man filled city groans below | K |
Amy Lowell
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