The Moon-path Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEFEGHGH IBJBKLKL HMHMKNKN OPOPCBCB| The full clear moon uprose and spread | A |
| Her cold pale splendor o'er the sea | B |
| A light strewn path that seemed to lead | A |
| Outward into eternity | B |
| Between the darkness and the gleam | C |
| An old world spell encompassed me | B |
| Methought that in a godlike dream | C |
| I trod upon the sea | B |
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| And lo upon that glimmering road | D |
| In shining companies unfurled | E |
| The trains of many a primal god | F |
| The monsters of the elder world | E |
| Strange creatures that with silver wings | G |
| Scarce touched the ocean's thronging floor | H |
| The phantoms of old tales and things | G |
| Whose shapes are known no more | H |
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| Giants and demi gods who once | I |
| Were dwellers of the earth and sea | B |
| And they who from Deucalion's stones | J |
| Rose men without an infancy | B |
| Beings on whose majestic lids | K |
| Time's solemn secrets seemed to dwell | L |
| Tritons and pale limbed Nereids | K |
| And forms of heaven and hell | L |
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| Some who were heroes long of yore | H |
| When the great world was hale and young | M |
| And some whose marble lips yet pour | H |
| The murmur of an antique tongue | M |
| Sad queens whose names are like soft moans | K |
| Whose griefs were written up in gold | N |
| And some who on their silver thrones | K |
| Were goddesses of old | N |
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| As if I had been dead indeed | O |
| And come into some after land | P |
| I saw them pass me and take heed | O |
| And touch me with each mighty hand | P |
| And evermore a murmurous stream | C |
| So beautiful they seemed to me | B |
| Not less than in a godlike dream | C |
| I trod the shining sea | B |
Archibald Lampman
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