The Rising Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG GHGH IJIJ EKCK| The king of day rides on | A |
| To give the placid morning birth | B |
| On wheels of glory moves his throne | C |
| Whose light adorns the earth | B |
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| When once his limpid maid | D |
| Has the imperial course begun | E |
| The lark deserts the dusky glade | D |
| And soars to meet the sun | E |
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| Up from the orient deep | F |
| Aurora mounts without delay | G |
| With brooms of light the plains to sweep | F |
| And purge the gloom away | G |
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| Ye ghostly scenes give way | G |
| Our king is coming now in sight | H |
| Bearing the diadem of day | G |
| Whose crest expels the night | H |
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| Thus we like birds retreat | I |
| To groves and hide from ev'ry eye | J |
| Our slumb'ring dust will rise and meet | I |
| Its morning in the sky | J |
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| The immaterial sun | E |
| Now hid within empyreal gloom | K |
| Will break forth on a brighter throne | C |
| And call us from the tomb | K |
George Moses Horton
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Ellen Conley: The 4th stanza: ["Thus we, like birds, retreat
To groves, and hide from ev'ry eye;
Our slumb'ring dust will rise and meet
Its morning in the sky." ], was placed on a tombstone honoring the many unmarked graves in a cemetery. The bottom section on the Tombstone had the author's name which I couldn't read clearly. Nor could I determine what was written below his name. The picture was quite blurry. It took me three days searching for the words. And at that point, I now know the author's name. I have read it several times. I actually enjoyed the poem in its entirety.
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