August Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGAA HHIJKKLLMM NNAAFFAAOOPPQQRRAASS TTOODDUUVVCCWWXXYYYY ZZOOPPAAQ OOA2A2AAB2B2C2C2A2A2 D2D2YYRROOAAMMB2B2VV E2E2BBF2G2H2H2 AAOAXXI2I2B2B2AAAAJ2 J2K2K2RL2M2M2N2N2O2P 2Q2Q2AALook the round cheeked moon floats high | A |
In the glowing August sky | A |
Quenching all her neighbor stars | B |
Save the steady flame of Mars | B |
White as silver shines the sea | C |
Far off sails like phantoms be | C |
Gliding o'er that lake of light | D |
Vanishing in nether night | D |
Heavy hangs the tasseled corn | E |
Sighing for the cordial morn | E |
But the marshy meadows bare | F |
Love this spectral lighted air | F |
Drink the dews and lift their song | G |
Chirp of crickets all night long | G |
Earth and sea enchanted lie | A |
'Neath that moon usurped sky | A |
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To the faces of our friends | H |
Unfamiliar traits she lends | H |
Quaint white witch who looketh down | I |
With a glamour all her own | J |
Hushed are laughter jest and speech | K |
Mute and heedless each of each | K |
In the glory wan we sit | L |
Visions vague before us flit | L |
Side by side yet worlds apart | M |
Heart becometh strange to heart | M |
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Slowly in a moved voice then | N |
Ralph the artist spake again | N |
Does not that weird orb unroll | A |
Scenes phantasmal to your soul | A |
As I gaze thereon I swear | F |
Peopled grows the vacant air | F |
Fables myths alone are real | A |
White clad sylph like figures steal | A |
'Twixt the bushes o'er the lawn | O |
Goddess nymph undine and faun | O |
Yonder see the Willis dance | P |
Faces pale with stony glance | P |
They are maids who died unwed | Q |
And they quit their gloomy bed | Q |
Hungry still for human pleasure | R |
Here to trip a moonlit measure | R |
Near the shore the mermaids play | A |
Floating on the cool white spray | A |
Leaping from the glittering surf | S |
To the dark and fragrant turf | S |
Where the frolic trolls and elves | T |
Daintily disport themselves | T |
All the shapes by poet's brain | O |
Fashioned live for me again | O |
In this spiritual light | D |
Less than day yet more than night | D |
What a world a waking dream | U |
All things other than they seem | U |
Borrowing a finer grace | V |
From yon golden globe in space | V |
Touched with wild romantic glory | C |
Foliage fresh and billows hoary | C |
Hollows bathed in yellow haze | W |
Hills distinct and fields of maize | W |
Ancient legends come to mind | X |
Who would marvel should he find | X |
In the copse or nigh the spring | Y |
Summer fairies gamboling | Y |
Where the honey bees do suck | Y |
Mab and Ariel and Puck | Y |
Ah no modern mortal sees | Z |
Creatures delicate as these | Z |
All the simple faith has gone | O |
Which their world was builded on | O |
Now the moonbeams coldly glance | P |
On no gardens of romance | P |
To prosaic senses dull | A |
Baldur's dead the Beautiful | A |
Hark the cry rings overhead | Q |
'Universal Pan is dead ' | - |
Requiescant Claude's grave tone | O |
Thrilled us strangely I am one | O |
Who would not restore that Past | A2 |
Beauty will immortal last | A2 |
Though the beautiful must die | A |
This the ages verify | A |
And had Pan deserved the name | B2 |
Which his votaries misclaim | B2 |
He were living with us yet | C2 |
I behold without regret | C2 |
Beauty in new forms recast | A2 |
Truth emerging from the vast | A2 |
Bright and orbed like yonder sphere | D2 |
Making the obscure air clear | D2 |
He shall be of bards the king | Y |
Who in worthy verse shall sing | Y |
All the conquests of the hour | R |
Stealing no fictitious power | R |
From the classic types outworn | O |
But his rhythmic line adorn | O |
With the marvels of the real | A |
He the baseless feud shall heal | A |
That estrangeth wide apart | M |
Science from her sister Art | M |
Hold look through this glass for me | B2 |
Artist tell me what you see | B2 |
I cried Ralph I see in place | V |
Of Astarte's silver face | V |
Or veiled Isis' radiant robe | E2 |
Nothing but a rugged globe | E2 |
Seamed with awful rents and scars | B |
And below no longer Mars | B |
Fierce flame crested god of war | F2 |
But a lurid flickering star | G2 |
Fashioned like our mother earth | H2 |
Vexed belike with death and birth | H2 |
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Rapt in dreamy thought the while | A |
With a sphinx like shadowy smile | A |
Poet Florio sat but now | O |
Spake in deep voiced accents slow | A |
More as one who probes his mind | X |
Than for us Who seeks shall find | X |
Widening knowledge surely brings | I2 |
Vaster themes to him who sings | I2 |
Was veiled Isis more sublime | B2 |
Than yon frozen fruit of Time | B2 |
Hanging in the naked sky | A |
Death's domain for worlds too die | A |
Lo the heavens like a scroll | A |
Stand revealed before my soul | A |
And the hieroglyphs are suns | J2 |
Changeless change the law that runs | J2 |
Through the flame inscribed page | K2 |
World on world and age on age | K2 |
Balls of ice and orbs of fire | R |
What abides when these expire | L2 |
Through slow cycles they revolve | M2 |
Yet at last like clouds dissolve | M2 |
Jove Osiris Brahma pass | N2 |
Races wither like the grass | N2 |
Must not mortals be as gods | O2 |
To embrace such periods | P2 |
Yet at Nature's heart remains | Q2 |
One who waxes not nor wanes | Q2 |
And our crowning glory still | A |
Is to have conceived his will | A |
Emma Lazarus
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