Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACDC EFFF GHIH AJFJ FKFK LFFF MFAF NFOF PFNF IQRQ| The night proceeds and dwindling | A |
| Prepares the day's rebirth | B |
| An airman is ascending | A |
| Above the sleeping earth | B |
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| And almost disappearing | A |
| In cloud a tiny spark | C |
| He now is like a cross stitch | D |
| A midget laundry mark | C |
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| Beneath him are strange cities | E |
| And heavy traffic lanes | F |
| And night clubs barracks stokers | F |
| And railways stations trains | F |
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| The shadow of his wing span | G |
| Falls heavy on the cloud | H |
| Celestial bodies wander | I |
| Around him in a crowd | H |
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| And there with frightful listing | A |
| Through emptiness away | J |
| Through unknown solar systems | F |
| Revolves the Milky Way | J |
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| In limitless expanses | F |
| Are headlands burning bright | K |
| In basements and in cellars | F |
| The stokers work all night | K |
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| And underneath a rooftop | L |
| In Paris maybe Mars | F |
| Or Venus sees a notice | F |
| About a recent farce | F |
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| And maybe in an attic | M |
| And under ancient slates | F |
| A man sits wakeful working | A |
| He thinks and broods and waits | F |
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| He looks upon the planet | N |
| As if the heavenly spheres | F |
| Were part of his entrusted | O |
| Nocturnal private cares | F |
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| Fight off your sleep be wakeful | P |
| Work on keep up your pace | F |
| Keep vigil like the pilot | N |
| Like all the stars in space | F |
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| Work on work on creator | I |
| To sleep would be a crime | Q |
| Eternity's own hostage | R |
| And prisoner of Time | Q |
Boris Pasternak
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