The Aurora On The Clyde Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDAEBFFBDE GBHHBBG IBJJBBI BBKKBBB BBBBBBB LBBBBBM ABBBBB| AH me how heavily the night comes down | A |
| Heavily heavily | B |
| Fade the curved shores the blue hills' serried throng | C |
| The darkening waves we oared in light and song | C |
| Joy melts from us as sunshine from the sky | D |
| And Patience with sad eye | D |
| Takes up her staff and drops her withered crown | A |
| Our small boat heaves upon the heaving river | E |
| Wearily wearily | B |
| The flickering shore lights come and go by fits | F |
| Towering 'twixt earth and heaven dusk silence sits | F |
| Death at her feet above infinity | B |
| Between slow drifting by | D |
| Our tiny boat like life floats onward ever | E |
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| Pale mournful hour too early night that falls | G |
| Drearily drearily | B |
| Come not too soon Return return bright day | H |
| Kind voices smiles blue mountains sunny bay | H |
| In vain Life's dial cannot backward fly | B |
| The dark time comes Low lie | B |
| And listen soul Oft in the night God calls | G |
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| Light light on the black river How it gleams | I |
| Solemnly solemnly | B |
| Like troops of pale ghosts on their pensive march | J |
| Treading the far heavens in a luminous arch | J |
| Each after each phantasms serene and high | B |
| From that eternity | B |
| Where all earth's sharpest woes grow dim as dreams | I |
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| Let us drink in the glory full and whole | B |
| Silently silently | B |
| Gaze till it lulls all pain all vain desires | K |
| See now that radiant bow of pillared fires | K |
| Spanning the hills like dawn until they lie | B |
| In soft tranquillity | B |
| And all night's ghastly glooms asunder roll | B |
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| Look look again the vision changes fast | B |
| Gloriously gloriously | B |
| That was heaven's gate with its illumined road | B |
| But this is heaven the very throne of God | B |
| Hung with flame curtains of celestial dye | B |
| Waving perpetually | B |
| While to and fro innumerous angels haste | B |
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| I see no more the stream the boat that moves | L |
| Mournfully mournfully | B |
| And we who sit poor prisoners of clay | B |
| It is not night it is immortal day | B |
| Where the One Presence fills eternity | B |
| And each His servant high | B |
| Forever praises and forever loves | M |
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| O soul forget the weight that drags thee down | A |
| Deathfully deathfully | B |
| Know thyself As this glory wraps thee round | B |
| Let it melt off the chains that long have bound | B |
| Thy strength Stand free before thy God and cry | B |
| 'My Father here am I | B |
| Give to me as thou wilt first cross then crown ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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