Moon-struck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJJKLMIENIAOPQRGS TUVWXYBZKTA2B2C2D2GE 2E2AF2G G2H2HI2I2J2K2L2M2GN2 A2XO2 N2P2I TH O2Q2R2R2 S2T2U2V2NW2XIXU2X2Y2 PN2 AZ2MBG2 A3A3B3N2C3XT2A3

IT is a moorA
Barren and treeless lying high and bareB
Beneath the arch d sky The rushing windsC
Fly over it each with his strong bow bentD
And quiver full of whistling arrows keenE
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I am a woman lonely old and poorF
If there be any one who watches meG
But there is none adown the long blank woldH
My figure painted on the level skyI
Would startle him as if it were a ghostJ
And like a ghost a weary wandering ghostJ
I roam and roam and shiver through the darkK
That will not hide me O but for one hourL
One blessed hour of warm and dewy nightM
To wrap me like a pall with not an eyeI
In earth or heaven to pierce the black sereneE
Night call yet this No night no dark no restN
A moon ray sweeps down sudden from the skyI
And smites the moorA
Is't thou accurs d ThingO
Broad pallid like a great woe looming outP
Out of its long sealed grave to fill all earthQ
With its dead ghastly smile Art there againR
Round perfect large as when we buried theeG
I and the kindly clouds that heard my prayersS
I'll sit me down and meet thee face to faceT
Mine enemy Why didst thou rise uponU
My world my innocent world to make me madV
Wherefore shine forth a tiny tremulous curveW
Hung out in the gray sunset beauteouslyX
To tempt mine eyes then nightly to increaseY
Slow orbing till thy full blank pitiless stareB
Hunts me across the worldZ
No rest no darkK
Hour after hour that passionless bright faceT
Climbs up the desolate blue I will press downA2
The lids on my tired eyeballs crouch in dustB2
And prayC2
Thank God thank God a cloud has hidD2
My torturer The night at last is freeG
Forth peep in crowds the merry twinkling starsE2
Ah we'll shine out the little silly starsE2
And I we'll dance together across the moorA
They up aloft I here At last at lastF2
We are aveng d of our adversaryG
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The freshening of the night air feels like dawnG2
Who said that I was mad I will ariseH2
Throw off my burthen march across the woldH
Airily Ha what stumbling Nay no fearI2
I am used unto the dark for many a yearI2
Steering compassionless athwart the wasteJ2
To where deep hid in valleys of white mistK2
The pleasant home lights shine I will but pauseL2
Turn round and gazeM2
O me O miserable meG
The cloud bank overflows sudden outpourN2
The bright white moon rays ah I drown I drownA2
And o'er the flood with steady motion slowX
It walketh my inexorable DoomO2
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No more I shall not struggle any moreN2
I will lie down as quiet as a childP2
I can but dieI
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There I have hid my faceT
Stray travellers passing o'er the silent woldH
Would only say 'She sleeps '-
Glare on my DoomO2
I will not look at thee and if at timesQ2
I shiver still I neither weep nor moanR2
Angels may see I neither weep nor moanR2
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Was that sharp whistling wind the morning breezeS2
That calls the stars back to the obscure of heavenT2
I am very cold And yet there is a changeU2
Less fiercely the sharp moonbeams smite my brainV2
My heart beats slower duller soothing restN
Like a soft garment binds my shuddering limbsW2
If I looked up now should I see it stillX
Gibbeted ghastly in the hopeless skyI
NoX
It is very strange all things seem strangeU2
Pale spectral face I do not fear thee nowX2
Was't this mere shadow which did haunt me onceY2
Like an avenging fiend Well we fade outP
Together I'll nor dread nor curse thee moreN2
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How calm the earth seems and I know the moorA
Glistens with dew stars I will try and turnZ2
My poor face eastward Close not eyes That lightM
Fringing the far hills all so fair so fairB
Is it not dawn I am dying but 't is dawnG2
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'Upon the mountains I behold the feetA3
Of my Beloved let us forth to meet'A3
DeathB3
This is death I see the light no moreN2
I sleepC3
But like a morning bird my soulX
Springs singing upward into the deeps of heavenT2
Through world on world to follow Infinite DayA3

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik



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