Across The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE ABCB GHIH CJAJ KBLB| Much listening through the silences | A |
| Much staring through the night | B |
| And lo the dumb blind distances | C |
| Are bridged with speech and sight | B |
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| Magician Thought informed of Love | D |
| Hath fixed her on the air | E |
| Oh Love and I laughed down the fates | F |
| And clasped her here as there | E |
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| Across the eerie silences | A |
| She came in headlong flight | B |
| She stormed the serried distances | C |
| She trampled space and night | B |
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| Oh foolish scientists might give | G |
| This miracle a name | H |
| But Love and I care but to know | I |
| That when we called she came | H |
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| And since I find the distances | C |
| Subservient to my thought | J |
| And of the sentient silences | A |
| More vital speech have wrought | J |
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| Then she and I will mock Death's self | K |
| For all his vaunted might | B |
| There are no gulfs we dare not leap | L |
| As she leapt through the night | B |
Don Marquis
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