The Children Of The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ STSU VWVW XYXY AZAZ| For those that never know the light | A |
| The darkness is a sullen thing | B |
| And they the Children of the Night | A |
| Seem lost in Fortune's winnowing | B |
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| But some are strong and some are weak | C |
| And there's the story House and home | D |
| Are shut from countless hearts that seek | C |
| World refuge that will never come | E |
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| And if there be no other life | F |
| And if there be no other chance | G |
| To weigh their sorrow and their strife | F |
| Than in the scales of circumstance | G |
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| 'T were better ere the sun go down | H |
| Upon the first day we embark | I |
| In life's imbittered sea to drown | H |
| Than sail forever in the dark | I |
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| But if there be a soul on earth | J |
| So blinded with its own misuse | K |
| Of man's revealed incessant worth | J |
| Or worn with anguish that it views | K |
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| No light but for a mortal eye | L |
| No rest but of a mortal sleep | M |
| No God but in a prophet's lie | L |
| No faith for honest doubt to keep | M |
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| If there be nothing good or bad | N |
| But chaos for a soul to trust | O |
| God counts it for a soul gone mad | N |
| And if God be God He is just | O |
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| And if God be God He is Love | P |
| And though the Dawn be still so dim | Q |
| It shows us we have played enough | R |
| With creeds that make a fiend of Him | Q |
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| There is one creed and only one | S |
| That glorifies God's excellence | T |
| So cherish that His will be done | S |
| The common creed of common sense | U |
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| It is the crimson not the gray | V |
| That charms the twilight of all time | W |
| It is the promise of the day | V |
| That makes the starry sky sublime | W |
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| It is the faith within the fear | X |
| That holds us to the life we curse | Y |
| So let us in ourselves revere | X |
| The Self which is the Universe | Y |
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| Let us the Children of the Night | A |
| Put off the cloak that hides the scar | Z |
| Let us be Children of the Light | A |
| And tell the ages what we are | Z |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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