August Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGAA HHIJKKLLMM NNAAFFAAOOPPQQRRAASS TTOODDUUVVCCWWXXYYYY ZZOOPPAAQ OOA2A2AAB2B2C2C2A2A2 D2D2YYRROOAAMMB2B2VV E2E2BBF2G2H2H2 AAOAXXI2I2B2B2AAAAJ2 J2K2K2RL2M2M2N2N2O2P 2Q2Q2AA| Look 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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