Revelation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEEFEF GFGFFCFC HIHIICIC| Into the silver night | A |
| She brought with her pale hand | B |
| The topaz lanthorn light | A |
| And darted splendour o'er the land | B |
| Around her in a band | B |
| Ringstraked and pied the great soft moths came flying | C |
| And flapping with their mad wings fann'd | B |
| The flickering flame ascending falling dying | C |
| - | |
| Behind the thorny pink | D |
| Close wall of blossom'd may | E |
| I gazed thro' one green chink | D |
| And saw no more than thousands may | E |
| Saw sweetness tender and gay | E |
| Saw full rose lips as rounded as the cherry | F |
| Saw braided locks more dark than bay | E |
| And flashing eyes decorous pure and merry | F |
| - | |
| With food for furry friends | G |
| She pass'd her lamp and she | F |
| Till eaves and gable ends | G |
| Hid all that saffron sheen from me | F |
| Around my rosy tree | F |
| Once more the silver starry night was shining | C |
| With depths of heaven dewy and free | F |
| And crystals of a carven moon declining | C |
| - | |
| Alas for him who dwells | H |
| In frigid air of thought | I |
| When warmer light dispels | H |
| The frozen calm his spirit sought | I |
| By life too lately taught | I |
| He sees the ecstatic Human from him stealing | C |
| Reels from the joy experience brought | I |
| And dares not clutch what Love was half revealing | C |
Edmund Gosse
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