To The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEEFGHGIJIJCC JKJKDLDLJJ MNMOPJOJQQ REREJSJTUU VWVWVVVVHH WXWXYVYVZZ A2B2A2C2XQXQEE ZVZVD2E2D2E2EE| With musing mind I watch thee steal | A |
| Above those envious clouds that hid | B |
| Till now thy face thou dost reveal | A |
| More than the glaring sunlight did | B |
| So round me would I have thy light | C |
| In one broad sea of beauty lie | D |
| And who while thou dost rule the night | C |
| For day would sigh | D |
| Nor long for wings that he might flee | E |
| To find thy hidden face and ride the dark with thee | E |
| And hence it was that ever forth | F |
| My fancy doated more and more | G |
| Upon the wild poetic worth | H |
| Of that old tale in Grecian lore | G |
| Which to the head of Latmos gave | I |
| Supernal glories passion won | J |
| By him who in the mystic cave | I |
| Endymion | J |
| Was wont to meet thee night by night | C |
| And drink into his soul the spirit of thy light | C |
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| Not thus it was thy beauty shone | J |
| In these drear summers lately past | K |
| Disheartened world distrusting lone | J |
| I shuddered in misfortune s blast | K |
| Many that loved me once were nigh | D |
| Of whom now these I may not trust | L |
| And those forget me or they lie | D |
| Dark in the dust | L |
| And never can we meet again | J |
| Loving and loved as then beneath thy friendly reign | J |
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| O Cynthia It would even seem | M |
| That portions from our spirits fell | N |
| Like scent from flowers throughout life s dream | M |
| And by that clue invisible | O |
| A gathered after scene of all | P |
| Affection builded high in vain | J |
| Is drawn thus in dim funeral | O |
| Past us again | J |
| The which where shadowed most with gloom | Q |
| Uncertain thought is fain to map with spells of doom | Q |
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| Let me this night the past forget | R |
| For though its dying voices be | E |
| At times like tones from Eden yet | R |
| The years have brought such change for me | E |
| That when but now my thoughts were given | J |
| To all I d suffered loved and lost | S |
| Turning my eyes again to heaven | J |
| Tear quenched almost | T |
| I started with impatience strange | U |
| To find thee even thee smiling untouched by change | U |
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| O vain display of secred pride | V |
| My human heart what irks thee so | W |
| What in the scale of being tried | V |
| Should weigh thy happiness or woe | W |
| Pale millions so by fortune curst | V |
| Have loved for sorrow in the light | V |
| Of this yet youthful morn since first | V |
| She claimed the night | V |
| And thus mature even from her birth | H |
| With pale beam chased the glooms that swathed the infant earth | H |
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| And be it humbling too to know | W |
| That when this pile of haughty clay | X |
| For ages shall have ceased to glow | W |
| Shrunk to a line of ashes grey | X |
| Which as the invasive ploughshare drills | Y |
| The unremembered burial sward | V |
| The wild winds o er a hundred hills | Y |
| May whirl abroad | V |
| That in the midnight heavens thou | Z |
| Shalt hang thy unfaded lamp and smile serene as now | Z |
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| Nay more than this could even those | A2 |
| The Edenites who sorrowed here | B2 |
| Ere Noah s tilted ark arose | A2 |
| Or Nimrod chased the bounding deer | C2 |
| Wherever sepulchred could they | X |
| The rigid bonds of death and doom | Q |
| Now for a moment shake away | X |
| From out their tomb | Q |
| They watchful face they still might see | E |
| Just as they dying left it gazing solemnly | E |
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| I sadden Ah Why bringest thou | Z |
| Yet later memories to my mind | V |
| I would but gaze upon thee now | Z |
| A wiser counsel thence to find | V |
| Shall I not even henceforth aim | D2 |
| To shun in act in thought control | E2 |
| Whatever dims the heaven born flame | D2 |
| The essential soul | E2 |
| I feel within and which must be | E |
| A living light when thine is quenched eternally | E |
Charles Harpur
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