Sonnet Lviii. The Glow-worm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHH| WHEN on some balmy breathing night of Spring | A |
| The happy child to whom the world is new | B |
| Pursues the evening moth of mealy wing | A |
| Or from the heath bell beats the sparkling dew | B |
| He sees before his inexperienced eyes | C |
| The brilliant Glow worm like a meteor shine | D |
| On the turf bank amazed and pleased he cries | C |
| 'Star of the dewy grass I make thee mine ' | E |
| Then ere he sleep collects 'the moisten'd' flower | F |
| And bids soft leaves his glittering prize enfold | G |
| And dreams that Fairy lamps illume his bower | F |
| Yet with the morning shudders to behold | G |
| His lucid treasure rayless as the dust | H |
| So turn the world's bright joys to cold and blank disgust | H |
Charlotte Smith
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