Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED AFGF HAIA AJKJ| The night is old and all the world | A |
| Is wearied out with strife | B |
| A long gray mist lies heavy and wan | C |
| Above the house of life | B |
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| Four stars burn up and are unquelled | A |
| By the low shrunken moon | D |
| Her spirit draws her down and down | E |
| She shall be buried soon | D |
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| There is a sound that is no sound | A |
| Yet fine it falls and clear | F |
| The whisper of the spinning earth | G |
| To the tranced atmosphere | F |
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| An odour lives where once was air | H |
| A strange unearthly scent | A |
| From the burning of the four great stars | I |
| Within the firmament | A |
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| The universe deathless and old | A |
| Breathes yet is void of breath | J |
| As still as death that seems to move | K |
| And yet is still as death | J |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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