The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJKJ LMNMOPQPABCB| Oh 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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