Nocturne: In Provence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCDED DFDGHFHII FJFKFFFKKThe blue night like an angel came into the room | A |
Came through the open window from the silent sky | B |
Down trellised stairs of moonlight into the dear room | A |
As if a whisper breathed of some divine one nigh | B |
The nightingales like brooks of song in Paradise | C |
Gurgled their serene rapture to the silent sky | B |
Like springs of laughter bubbling up in Paradise | C |
The serene nightingales along the riverside | D |
Purled low in every tree their star cool melodies | E |
Of joy in every tree along the riverside | D |
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Did the vain garments melt in music from your side | D |
Did you rise from them as a lily flowers i' the air | F |
But you were there before me like the Night's own bride | D |
I dared not call you mine So still and tall you were | G |
I never dreamed that you were mine I never dreamed | H |
I loved you I forgot I loved you You were air | F |
And music and the shadows that you stood in seemed | H |
Like priests that keep their sombre vigil round a shrine | I |
Like sombre priests that watch about a glorious shrine | I |
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And then you stepped into the moonlight and laid bare | F |
The wonder of your body to the night and stood | J |
With all the stars of heaven looking at you there | F |
As simply as a saint might bare her soul to God | K |
As simply as a saint might bathe in lakes of prayer | F |
Stood with the holy moonlight falling on you there | F |
Until I thought that in a glory unaware | F |
I had seen a soul stand forth and bare itself to God | K |
A saintly soul lay bare its innocence to God | K |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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