Words In The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBCBDEDE FGHIGIIJIKKIKIDEDE LMNNMNMOOMEIIEPP QIIIIRJRSTSJT UVUVVWVVWWXXBBYYZZZE ZE| I 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 |
| - | |
| 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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