The Evening Star. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM| Hail pensile gem that thus can softly gild | A |
| The starry coronal of quiet eve | B |
| What frost work fabrics man shall vainly build | A |
| Ere thou art doomed thy heavenly post to leave | B |
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| Bright star thou seem'st to me a blest retreat | C |
| The wearied pilgrim's paradise of rest | D |
| I love to think long parted friends shall meet | C |
| Blissful reunion in thy tranquil breast | D |
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| I saw thee shine when life with me was young | E |
| And fresh as fleet winged time's infantile hour | F |
| When Hope her treacherous chaplet 'round me flung | E |
| And daily twined a new created flower | F |
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| I saw thee shine while yet the sacred smile | G |
| Of home and kindred round my path would play | H |
| But Time who loves our fairest joys to spoil | I |
| Destined this hour of bloom to swift decay | H |
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| The buds that then were wreathed around my heart | J |
| Now breathe their hallowed sweetness there no more | K |
| 'Twas thine to see them one by one depart | J |
| And yet thou shinest brightly as before | K |
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| So when this bosom that 'mid all its woes | L |
| Has longed thy little port of rest to win | M |
| In the calm grave shall find at last repose | L |
| Thou'lt beam as fair as though I ne'er had been | M |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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