Night Sentries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACC DEDEDCC FGFGFCC HIHIHCC JKJKJCC LMLMLCC NOPONCC QRQRQCCEver as sinks the day on sea or land | A |
Called or uncalled you take your kindred posts | B |
At helm and lever wheel and switch you stand | A |
On the world's wastes and melancholy coasts | B |
Strength to the patient hand | A |
To all alert and faithful in the night | C |
May there by Light | C |
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Now roars the wrenching train along the dark | D |
How many watchers guard the barren way | E |
In signal towers at stammering keys to mark | D |
The word the whispering horizons say | E |
To all that see and hark | D |
To all alert and faithful in the night | C |
May there be Light | C |
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On ruthless streets on byways sad with sin | F |
Half hated by the blinded ones you guard | G |
Guard well lest crime unheeded enter in | F |
The dark is cruel and the vigil hard | G |
The hours of guilt begin | F |
To all alert and faithful in the night | C |
May there be Light | C |
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Now storms the pulsing hull adown the sea | H |
Gaze onward anxious eyes to mist or star | I |
Where foams the heaving highway blank and free | H |
Where wait the reef the berg the cape the bar | I |
Whatever menace be | H |
To all alert and faithful in the night | C |
May there be Light | C |
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Now the surf rumble rides the midnight wind | J |
And grave patrols are on ocean edge | K |
Now soars the rocket where the billows grind | J |
Discerned too late on sunken shoal or ledge | K |
To all that seek and find | J |
To all alert and faithful in the night | C |
May there be Light | C |
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On lonely headlands gleam the lamps that warn | L |
Star steady or ablink like dragon eyes | M |
Govern your rays or wake the giant horn | L |
Within the fog that welds the sea and skies | M |
Far distant runs the morn | L |
To all alert and faithful in the night | C |
May there be Light | C |
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Now glow the lesser lamps in rooms of pain | N |
Where nurse and doctor watch the joyless breath | O |
Drawn in a sigh and sighing lost again | P |
Who waits without the threshold Life or Death | O |
Reckon you loss or gain | N |
To all alert and faithful in the night | C |
May there be Light | C |
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Honor to you that guard our welfare now | Q |
To you that constant in the past have stood | R |
To all by whom the future shall avow | Q |
Unconquerable fortitude and good | R |
Upon the sleepless brow | Q |
Of each alert and faithful in the night | C |
May there be Light | C |
George Sterling
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