Moonrise Over Tyringham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ HKHK HHHH LMLN HHHH HOHO PHPH QRQR EHEH STSU HAHA VHVH BWBW| Now the high holocaust of hours is done | A |
| And all the west empurpled with their death | B |
| How swift oblivion drinks the fallen sun | A |
| How little while the dusk remembereth | B |
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| Though some there were proud hours that marched in mail | C |
| And took the morning on auspicious crest | D |
| Crying to fortune Back for I prevail | C |
| Yet now they lie disfeatured with the rest | D |
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| And some that stole so soft on destiny | E |
| Methought they had surprised her to a smile | F |
| But these fled frozen when she turned to see | E |
| And moaned and muttered through my heart awhile | F |
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| But now the day is emptied of them all | G |
| And night absorbs their life blood at a draught | H |
| And so my life lies as the gods let fall | G |
| An empty cup from which their lips have quaffed | H |
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| Yet see night is not by translucent ways | I |
| Up the grey void of autumn afternoon | J |
| Steals a mild crescent charioted in haze | I |
| And all the air is merciful as June | J |
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| The lake is a forgotten streak of day | H |
| That trembles through the hemlocks' darkling bars | K |
| And still my heart still some divine delay | H |
| Upon the threshold holds the earliest stars | K |
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| O pale equivocal hour whose suppliant feet | H |
| Haunt the mute reaches of the sleeping wind | H |
| Art thou a watcher stealing to entreat | H |
| Prayer and sepulture for thy fallen kind | H |
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| Poor plaintive waif of a predestined race | L |
| Their ruin gapes for thee Why linger here | M |
| Go hence in silence Veil thine orphaned face | L |
| Lest I should look on it and call it dear | N |
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| For if I love thee thou wilt sooner die | H |
| Some sudden ruin will plunge upon thy head | H |
| Midnight will fall from the revengeful sky | H |
| And hurl thee down among thy shuddering dead | H |
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| Avert thine eyes Lapse softly from my sight | H |
| Call not my name nor heed if thine I crave | O |
| So shalt thou sink through mitigated night | H |
| And bathe thee in the all effacing wave | O |
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| But upward still thy perilous footsteps fare | P |
| Along a high hung heaven drenched in light | H |
| Dilating on a tide of crystal air | P |
| That floods the dark hills to their utmost height | H |
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| Strange hour is this thy waning face that leans | Q |
| Out of mid heaven and makes my soul its glass | R |
| What victory is imaged there What means | Q |
| Thy tarrying smile Oh veil thy lips and pass | R |
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| Nay pause and let me name thee For I see | E |
| O with what flooding ecstasy of light | H |
| Strange hour that wilt not loose thy hold on me | E |
| Thou'rt not day's latest but the first of night | H |
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| And after thee the gold foot stars come thick | S |
| From hand to hand they toss the flying fire | T |
| Till all the zenith with their dance is quick | S |
| About the wheeling music of the Lyre | U |
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| Dread hour that lead'st the immemorial round | H |
| With lifted torch revealing one by one | A |
| The thronging splendours that the day held bound | H |
| And how each blue abyss enshrines its sun | A |
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| Be thou the image of a thought that fares | V |
| Forth from itself and flings its ray ahead | H |
| Leaping the barriers of ephemeral cares | V |
| To where our lives are but the ages' tread | H |
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| And let this year be not the last of youth | B |
| But first like thee of some new train of hours | W |
| If more remote from hope yet nearer truth | B |
| And kin to the unpetitionable powers | W |
Edith Wharton
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