The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJKJ LMNMOPQPABCBOh give me the night the dark dark night | A |
The night with never a star | B |
When the stars are veiled and the moon has sailed | C |
Beyond the horizon's bar | B |
When thought grows weary of groping its way | D |
Through darkness dense and deep | E |
And buries its head in oblivion's bed | F |
Wrapped warm in the mantle of sleep | E |
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For I hate the night the moon white night | A |
The night with a pallid face | G |
When a million eyes from the watchful skies | H |
Peers into each secret place | G |
For thought awakes and the old wound aches | I |
And Sorrow she cannot rest | J |
But all night long walks to and fro | K |
Through the aisles of my troubled breast | J |
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And Memory thinks it her royal hour | L |
When the heavens glitter and shine | M |
And she fills the cup of the past well up | N |
With a bitter and scalding wine | M |
And she calls for a toast to the ghastly ghost | O |
Of a joy that used to be | P |
And that terrible face in the dear old moon | Q |
Stares steadily down at me | P |
So give me the night the deep dark night | A |
The night with never a star | B |
When the skies are veiled and the moon has sailed | C |
Beyond the horizon's bar | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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