A Wakeful Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD AEAEFF AGAGH AIA JJ| In the dark and the gloom when winds were fretting | A |
| Like restless children worn out with play | B |
| I said to my heart 'This task forgetting | A |
| Is harder now than it is by day | B |
| For a hungry love that hides from the light | C |
| Like a tiger steals forth and is bold at night ' | D |
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| The wind wailed low like a woman weeping | A |
| Deeper and darker the dense gloom grew | E |
| And oh for the old sweet nights of sleeping | A |
| When dreams were happy and love was true | E |
| Before the stars from heaven went out | F |
| In a sudden blackness of dread and doubt | F |
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| The wind wailed loud like a madman shrieking | A |
| And I said to my heart 'Oh vain vain strife | G |
| We cannot forget and the peace we are seeking | A |
| Can only be won at the end of life | G |
| For see like a lurid and living spark | H |
| The eyes of the tiger shine through the dark ' | - |
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| The wind sighed low like a sick man dying | A |
| And the dawn crept silently over the hill | I |
| And I said 'O heart there is no use trying | A |
| We must remember and love on still ' | - |
| And the tiger appeased with its midnight feast | J |
| Fled as the dawn rose red in the East | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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