Night And Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE FGHGI JCKCL MNCNO PQRQS TUVUWW CXA DD XYZYJJ A2WB2WC2| Was it a lie that they told me | A |
| Was it a pitiless hoax | B |
| A sop for my soul and its longing | C |
| Only to cozen and coax | B |
| And a voice came down through the night and rain | D |
| 'They lied thou has trusted in vain ' | E |
| - | |
| Must I vanish off hand into darkness | F |
| Blown out with a breath like a lamp | G |
| Have I nought in the future to look to | H |
| Save rotting in darkness and damp | G |
| And the answer came with a mocking hiss | I |
| 'Thou hast nothing to look to save this ' | - |
| - | |
| What of the grave and its conquest | J |
| Of death and the loss of its sting | C |
| Was it only the brag of a madman | K |
| Who believed an impossible thing | C |
| And the voice returned as the voice of a ghost | L |
| 'It was but a madman's boast ' | - |
| - | |
| Am I the serf of my senses | M |
| Is my soul a slave without rights | N |
| Are feeding and breeding and sleeping | C |
| My first and truest delights | N |
| And the cruel answer cut me afresh | O |
| 'Thou art but the serf of thy flesh ' | - |
| - | |
| Is it all for nought that I travail | P |
| That I long for leisure from sin | Q |
| That I thirst for the pure and the perfect | R |
| And feel like a god within | Q |
| The voice replied to my passionate thought | S |
| 'Thy longing and travail is nought ' | - |
| - | |
| Then I bowed my head in anguish | T |
| Folding my face in my hands | U |
| And I shuddered as one that sinketh | V |
| In the clutch of quaking sands | U |
| And I stared as I clinched my fingers tight | W |
| Out through the black black night | W |
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| For life was shorn of its meaning | C |
| And I cried 'O God is it so | X |
| Utter the truth though it slay me | A |
| Utter it yes or no ' | - |
| But I heard no answer to heal my pain | D |
| Save the bluster of wind and rain | D |
| - | |
| And behold as I sat in my sorrow | X |
| A quick ray shot from the east | Y |
| Another and then another | Z |
| And I knew that the night had ceased | Y |
| And the dark clouds rolled away to the west | J |
| As the great sun rose from his rest | J |
| - | |
| And now as the fair dawn broadened | A2 |
| Strong and joyous and bright | W |
| My whole soul swept to meet it | B2 |
| Rapt with a deep delight | W |
| And a new voice rang from the radiant skies | C2 |
| 'Rejoice I have heard thee Arise ' | - |
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