The Star-bath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCDEFEFGHGHIHI| A place uplifted towards the midnight sky | A |
| Far far away among the mountains old | B |
| A treeless waste of rocks and freezing cold | B |
| Where the dead cheerless moon rode neighbouring by | A |
| And in the midst a silent tarn there lay | C |
| A narrow pool cold as the tide that flows | D |
| Where monstrous bergs beyond Varanger stray | C |
| Rising from sunless depths that no man knows | D |
| Thither as clustering fireflies have I seen | E |
| At fixed seasons all the stars come down | F |
| To wash in that cold wave their brightness clean | E |
| And win the special fire wherewith they crown | F |
| The wintry heavens in frost Even as a flock | G |
| Of falling birds down to the pool they came | H |
| I saw them and I heard the icy shock | G |
| Of stars engulfed with hissing of faint flame | H |
| Ages ago before the birth of men | I |
| Or earliest beast Yet I was still the same | H |
| That now remember knowing not where or when | I |
Clive Staples Lewis
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