The Setting Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD DEDDE DFDDF| 'Tis sweet to trace the setting sun | A |
| Wheel blushing down the west | B |
| When his diurnal race is run | A |
| The traveller stops the gloom to shun | A |
| And lodge his bones to rest | B |
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| Far from the eye he sinks apace | C |
| But still throws back his light | D |
| From oceans of resplendent grace | C |
| Whence sleeping vesper paints her face | C |
| And bids the sun good night | D |
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| To those hesperian fields by night | D |
| My thoughts in vision stray | E |
| Like spirits stealing into light | D |
| From gloom upon the wing of flight | D |
| Soaring from time away | E |
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| Our eagle with his pinions furl'd | D |
| Takes his departing peep | F |
| And hails the occidental world | D |
| Swift round whose base the globes are whirl'd | D |
| Whilst weary creatures sleep | F |
George Moses Horton
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