A Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDC AAEFFE GGCCCC HHIGGI CCHAAH CCCJJC GGKLMK NNGGGGFrom Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne' | A |
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I love the evenings passionless and fair I love the evens | B |
Whether old manor fronts their ray with golden fulgence leavens | B |
In numerous leafage bosomed close | C |
Whether the mist in reefs of fire extend its reaches sheer | D |
Or a hundred sunbeams splinter in an azure atmosphere | D |
On cloudy archipelagos | C |
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Oh gaze ye on the firmament a hundred clouds in motion | A |
Up piled in the immense sublime beneath the winds' commotion | A |
Their unimagined shapes accord | E |
Under their waves at intervals flames a pale levin through | F |
As if some giant of the air amid the vapours drew | F |
A sudden elemental sword | E |
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The sun at bay with splendid thrusts still keeps the sullen fold | G |
And momently at distance sets as a cupola of gold | G |
The thatched roof of a cot a glance | C |
Or on the blurred horizons joins his battle with the haze | C |
Or pools the glooming fields about with inter isolate blaze | C |
Great moveless meres of radiance | C |
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Then mark you how there hangs athwart the firmament's swept track | H |
Yonder a mighty crocodile with vast irradiant back | H |
A triple row of pointed teeth | I |
Under its burnished belly slips a ray of eventide | G |
The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds its tenebrous side | G |
With scales of golden mail ensheathe | I |
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Then mounts a palace then the air vibrates the vision flees | C |
Confounded to its base the fearful cloudy edifice | C |
Ruins immense in mounded wrack | H |
Afar the fragments strew the sky and each envermeiled cone | A |
Hangeth peak downward overhead like mountains overthrown | A |
When the earthquake heaves its hugy back | H |
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These vapours with their leaden golden iron bronz ed glows | C |
Where the hurricane the waterspout thunder and hell repose | C |
Muttering hoarse dreams of destined harms | C |
'Tis God who hangs their multitude amid the skiey deep | J |
As a warrior that suspendeth from the roof tree of his keep | J |
His dreadful and resounding arms | C |
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All vanishes The sun from topmost heaven precipitated | G |
Like to a globe of iron which is tossed back fiery red | G |
Into the furnace stirred to fume | K |
Shocking the cloudy surges plashed from its impetuous ire | L |
Even to the zenith spattereth in a flecking scud of fire | M |
The vaporous and inflam ed spume | K |
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O contemplate the heavens whenas the vein drawn day dies pale | N |
In every season every place gaze through their every veil | N |
With love that has not speech for need | G |
Beneath their solemn beauty is a mystery infinite | G |
If winter hue them like a pall or if the summer night | G |
Fantasy them with starry brede | G |
Francis Thompson
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