The Night - Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGGG HIJ HKLK HMN GOGO PQAQ DRD| In summer's mellow midnight | A |
| A cloudless moon shone through | B |
| Our open parlour window | C |
| And rose trees wet with dew | B |
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| I sat in silent musing | D |
| The soft wind waved my hair | E |
| It told me heaven was glorious | F |
| And sleeping earth was fair | E |
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| I needed not its breathing | D |
| To bring such thoughts to me | G |
| But still it whispered lowly | G |
| 'How dark the woods would be | G |
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| 'The thick leaves in my murmur | H |
| Are rustling like a dream | I |
| And all their myriad voices | J |
| Instinct with spirit seem ' | - |
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| I said 'Go gentle singer | H |
| Thy wooing voice is kind | K |
| But do not think its music | L |
| Has power to reach my mind | K |
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| 'Play with the scented flower | H |
| The young tree's supply bough | M |
| And leave my human feelings | N |
| In their own course to flow ' | - |
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| The wanderer would not heed me | G |
| Its kiss grew warmer still | O |
| 'Oh Come ' it sighed so sweetly | G |
| 'I'll win thee 'gainst thy will | O |
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| 'Were we not friends from childhood | P |
| Have I not loved thee long | Q |
| As long as thou the solemn night | A |
| Whose silence wakes my song | Q |
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| 'And when thy heart is resting | D |
| Beneath the church aisle stone | R |
| I shall have time for mourning | D |
| And thou for being alone ' | - |
Emily Bronte
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