Words In The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBCBDEDE FGHIGIIJIKKIKIDEDE LMNNMNMOOMEIIEPP QIIIIRJRSTSJT UVUVVWVVWWXXBBYYZZZE ZE

I woke at midnight and my heartA
My beating heart said this to meB
Thou seest the moon how calm and brightC
The world is fair by day and nightC
But what is that to theeB
One touch to me down dips the lightC
Over the land and seaB
All is mine all is my ownD
Toss the purple fountain highE
The breast of man is a vat of stoneD
I am alive I only IE
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One little touch and all is darkF
The winter with its sparkling moonsG
The spring with all her violetsH
The crimson dawns and rich sunsetsI
The autumn's yellowing noonsG
I only toss my purple jetsI
And thou art one that swoonsI
Upon a night of gust and roarJ
Shipwrecked among the waves and seemsI
Across the purple hills to roamK
Sweet odours touch him from the foamK
And downward sinking still he dreamsI
He walks the clover fields at homeK
And hears the rattling teamsI
All is mine all is my ownD
Toss the purple fountain highE
The breast of man is a vat of stoneD
I am alive I only IE
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Thou hast beheld a throated fountain spoutL
Full in the air and in the downward sprayM
A hovering Iris span the marble tankN
Which as the wind came ever rose and sankN
Violet and red so my continual playM
Makes beauty for the Gods with many a prankN
Of human excellence while theyM
Weary of all the noon in shadows sweetO
Supine and heavy eyed rest in the boundless heatO
Let the world's fountain playM
Beauty is pleasant in the eyes of JoveE
Betwixt the wavering shadows where he liesI
He marks the dancing column with his eyesI
Celestial and amid his inmost groveE
Upgathers all his limbs serenely blestP
Lulled by the mellow noise of the great world's unrestP
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One heart beats in all nature differingQ
But in the work it works its doubts and clamoursI
Are but the waste and brunt of instrumentsI
Wherewith a work is done or as the hammersI
On forge Cyclopean plied beneath the rentsI
Of lowest Etna conquering into shapeR
The hard and scattered oreJ
Choose thou narcotics and the dizzy grapeR
Outworking passion lest with horrid crashS
Thy life go from thee in a night of painT
So tutoring thy vision shall the flashS
Of dove white breasted be to thee no moreJ
Than a white stone heavy upon the plainT
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Hark the cock crows loudU
And without all ghastly and illV
Like a man uplift in his shroudU
The white white morn is propped on the hillV
And adown from the eaves pointed and chillV
The icicles 'gin to glitterW
And the birds with a warble short and shrillV
Pass by the chamber window stillV
With a quick uneasy twitterW
Let me pump warm blood for the cold is bitterW
And wearily wearily one by oneX
Men awake with the weary sunX
Life is a phantom shut in theeB
I am the master and keep the keyB
So let me toss thee the days of oldY
Crimson and orange and green and goldY
So let me fill thee yet againZ
With a rush of dreams from my spout amainZ
For all is mine all is my ownZ
Toss the purple fountain highE
The breast of man is a vat of stoneZ
And I am alive I only IE

George Macdonald



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