Nocturne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CCDAAD CCEDDE CCECCE AACAAF AAGAAG CCECCE| Night of Mid June in heavy vapours dying | A |
| Like priestly hands thy holy touch is lying | A |
| Upon the world's wide brow | B |
| God like and grand all nature is commanding | A |
| The peace that passes human understanding | A |
| I also feel it now | B |
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| What matters it to night if one life treasure | C |
| I covet is not mine Am I to measure | C |
| The gifts of Heaven's decree | D |
| By my desires O life for ever longing | A |
| For some far gift where many gifts are thronging | A |
| God wills it may not be | D |
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| Am I to learn that longing lifted higher | C |
| Perhaps will catch the gleam of sacred fire | C |
| That shows my cross is gold | E |
| That underneath this cross however lowly | D |
| A jewel rests white beautiful and holy | D |
| Whose worth can not be told | E |
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| Like to a scene I watched one day in wonder | C |
| A city great and powerful lay under | C |
| A sky of grey and gold | E |
| The sun outbreaking in his farewell hour | C |
| Was scattering afar a yellow shower | C |
| Of light that aureoled | E |
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| With brief hot touch so marvellous and shining | A |
| A hundred steeples on the sky out lining | A |
| Like network threads of fire | C |
| Above them all with halo far outspreading | A |
| I saw a golden cross in glory heading | A |
| A consecrated spire | F |
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| I only saw its gleaming form uplifting | A |
| Against the clouds of grey to seaward drifting | A |
| And yet I surely know | G |
| Beneath the seen a great unseen is resting | A |
| For while the cross that pinnacle is cresting | A |
| An Altar lies below | G |
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| Night of Mid June so slumberous and tender | C |
| Night of Mid June transcendent in thy splendour | C |
| Thy silent wings enfold | E |
| And hush my longing as at thy desire | C |
| All colour fades from round that far off spire | C |
| Except its cross of gold | E |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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