The Last Quarter Of The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBA CDDDE FGHGF IJJJI KLLLL LJJJL LMMML LNONL PQRQP| How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life | A |
| A spatter of rust on its polished steel | B |
| The seasons reel | B |
| Like a goaded wheel | B |
| Half numb half maddened my days are strife | A |
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| The night is sliding towards the dawn | C |
| And upturned hills crouch at autumn's knees | D |
| A torn moon flees | D |
| Through the hemlock trees | D |
| The hours have gnawed it to feed their spawn | E |
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| Pursuing and jeering the misshapen thing | F |
| A rabble of clouds flares out of the east | G |
| Like dogs unleashed | H |
| After a beast | G |
| They stream on the sky an outflung string | F |
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| A desolate wind through the unpeopled dark | I |
| Shakes the bushes and whistles through empty nests | J |
| And the fierce unrests | J |
| I keep as guests | J |
| Crowd my brain with corpses pallid and stark | I |
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| Leave me in peace O Spectres who haunt | K |
| My labouring mind I have fought and failed | L |
| I have not quailed | L |
| I was all unmailed | L |
| And naked I strove 'tis my only vaunt | L |
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| The moon drops into the silver day | L |
| As waking out of her swoon she comes | J |
| I hear the drums | J |
| Of millenniums | J |
| Beating the mornings I still must stay | L |
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| The years I must watch go in and out | L |
| While I build with water and dig in air | M |
| And the trumpets blare | M |
| Hollow despair | M |
| The shuddering trumpets of utter rout | L |
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| An atom tossed in a chaos made | L |
| Of yeasting worlds which bubble and foam | N |
| Whence have I come | O |
| What would be home | N |
| I hear no answer I am afraid | L |
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| I crave to be lost like a wind blown flame | P |
| Pushed into nothingness by a breath | Q |
| And quench in a wreath | R |
| Of engulfing death | Q |
| This fight for a God or this devil's game | P |
Amy Lowell
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