This Is A Poem I Wrote At Night, Before The Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGH IIDIJGGIKKIThis is a poem I wrote before I died and was reborn | A |
After the years of the apples ripening and the eagles | B |
soaring | C |
After the festival here the small flowers gleamed like the | D |
first stars | E |
And the horses cantered and romped away like the | D |
experience of skill mastered and serene | F |
Power grasped and governed by reins lightly held by | G |
knowing hands | H |
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The horses had cantered away far enough away | I |
So that I saw the horses' heads farther and farther away | I |
And saw that they had reached the black horizon on the | D |
dusk of day | I |
And were or seemed black thunderheads massy and | J |
ominous waves in the doomed sky | G |
And it was then for the first time then that I said as I | G |
must always say | I |
All through living death of night | K |
It is always darkness before delight | K |
The long night is always the beginning of the vivid blossom of day | I |
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