Nocturne: In Provence. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCDED DFDGHFHII FJFKFFFKK| The 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 (william)
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