Words In The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBCBDEDE FGHIGIIJIKKIKIDEDE LMNNMNMOOMEIIEPP QIIIIRJRSTSJT UVUVVWVVWWXXBBYYZZZE ZEI woke at midnight and my heart | A |
My beating heart said this to me | B |
Thou seest the moon how calm and bright | C |
The world is fair by day and night | C |
But what is that to thee | B |
One touch to me down dips the light | C |
Over the land and sea | B |
All is mine all is my own | D |
Toss the purple fountain high | E |
The breast of man is a vat of stone | D |
I am alive I only I | E |
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One little touch and all is dark | F |
The winter with its sparkling moons | G |
The spring with all her violets | H |
The crimson dawns and rich sunsets | I |
The autumn's yellowing noons | G |
I only toss my purple jets | I |
And thou art one that swoons | I |
Upon a night of gust and roar | J |
Shipwrecked among the waves and seems | I |
Across the purple hills to roam | K |
Sweet odours touch him from the foam | K |
And downward sinking still he dreams | I |
He walks the clover fields at home | K |
And hears the rattling teams | I |
All is mine all is my own | D |
Toss the purple fountain high | E |
The breast of man is a vat of stone | D |
I am alive I only I | E |
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Thou hast beheld a throated fountain spout | L |
Full in the air and in the downward spray | M |
A hovering Iris span the marble tank | N |
Which as the wind came ever rose and sank | N |
Violet and red so my continual play | M |
Makes beauty for the Gods with many a prank | N |
Of human excellence while they | M |
Weary of all the noon in shadows sweet | O |
Supine and heavy eyed rest in the boundless heat | O |
Let the world's fountain play | M |
Beauty is pleasant in the eyes of Jove | E |
Betwixt the wavering shadows where he lies | I |
He marks the dancing column with his eyes | I |
Celestial and amid his inmost grove | E |
Upgathers all his limbs serenely blest | P |
Lulled by the mellow noise of the great world's unrest | P |
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One heart beats in all nature differing | Q |
But in the work it works its doubts and clamours | I |
Are but the waste and brunt of instruments | I |
Wherewith a work is done or as the hammers | I |
On forge Cyclopean plied beneath the rents | I |
Of lowest Etna conquering into shape | R |
The hard and scattered ore | J |
Choose thou narcotics and the dizzy grape | R |
Outworking passion lest with horrid crash | S |
Thy life go from thee in a night of pain | T |
So tutoring thy vision shall the flash | S |
Of dove white breasted be to thee no more | J |
Than a white stone heavy upon the plain | T |
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Hark the cock crows loud | U |
And without all ghastly and ill | V |
Like a man uplift in his shroud | U |
The white white morn is propped on the hill | V |
And adown from the eaves pointed and chill | V |
The icicles 'gin to glitter | W |
And the birds with a warble short and shrill | V |
Pass by the chamber window still | V |
With a quick uneasy twitter | W |
Let me pump warm blood for the cold is bitter | W |
And wearily wearily one by one | X |
Men awake with the weary sun | X |
Life is a phantom shut in thee | B |
I am the master and keep the key | B |
So let me toss thee the days of old | Y |
Crimson and orange and green and gold | Y |
So let me fill thee yet again | Z |
With a rush of dreams from my spout amain | Z |
For all is mine all is my own | Z |
Toss the purple fountain high | E |
The breast of man is a vat of stone | Z |
And I am alive I only I | E |
George Macdonald
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