Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDBDEAAEAAFGFGH CHCIJIJBKBKLLK| After the fret and failure of this day | A |
| And weariness of thought O Mother Night | B |
| Come with soft kiss to soothe our care away | A |
| And all our little tumults set to right | B |
| Most pitiful of all death's kindred fair | C |
| Riding above us through the curtained air | C |
| On thy dusk car thou scatterest to the earth | D |
| Sweet dreams and drowsy charms of tender might | B |
| And lovers' dear delight before to morrow's birth | D |
| Thus art thou wont thy quiet lands to leave | E |
| And pillared courts beyond the Milky Way | A |
| Wherein thou tarriest all our solar day | A |
| While unsubstantial dreams before thee weave | E |
| A foamy dance and fluttering fancies play | A |
| About thy palace in the silver ray | A |
| Of some far moony globe But when the hour | F |
| The long expected comes the ivory gates | G |
| Open on noiseless hinge before thy bower | F |
| Unbidden and the jewelled chariot waits | G |
| With magic steeds Thou from the fronting rim | H |
| Bending to urge them whilst thy sea dark hair | C |
| Falls in ambrosial ripples o'er each limb | H |
| With beautiful pale arms untrammelled bare | C |
| For horsemanship to those twin chargers fleet | I |
| Dost give full rein across the fires that glow | J |
| In the wide floor of heaven from off their feet | I |
| Scattering the powdery star dust as they go | J |
| Come swiftly down the sky O Lady Night | B |
| Fall through the shadow country O most kind | K |
| Shake out thy strands of gentle dreams and light | B |
| For chains wherewith thou still art used to bind | K |
| With tenderest love of careful leeches' art | L |
| The bruised and weary heart | L |
| In slumber blind | K |
C. S. Lewis
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