One Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI EJEJKLKLWas it last summer or ages gone | A |
That damp dark night in the August dusk | B |
When I waited for you by the gate alone | C |
And the air was heavy with scents like musk | B |
Swiftly and silently shooting down | D |
Like the lonesome light of a falling star | E |
I saw through the shadows dense and brown | D |
The dull red light of your fine cigar | E |
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Like a king who taketh his own you came | F |
Through the lowering night and the falling dew | G |
Like one who yields to a rightful claim | F |
I waited there in the dusk for you | G |
Never again when the day grows late | H |
Never again in the years to be | I |
Shall I stand in the dark and dew and wait | H |
And never again will you come to me | I |
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But always and ever when high and far | E |
The old moon hideth her troubled face | J |
I think how the light like a falling star | E |
Lit all my world with a new strange grace | J |
The passionate glow of your splendid eyes | K |
Shines into my heart as it shone that night | L |
And its slumberous billows surge and rise | K |
As the ocean is stirred by the tempest's might | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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