The Setting Of The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEECCFGFHIIJKAAK JLMMNNOPPCCCCC KMQPPRSTMMCUCVWXX CYAZZA2CB2CLALC2WAWD 2D2As in the lonely night | A |
Above the silvered fields and streams | B |
Where zephyr gently blows | C |
And myriad objects vague | D |
Illusions that deceive | E |
Their distant shadows weave | E |
Amid the silent rills | C |
The trees the hedges villages and hills | C |
Arrived at heaven's boundary | F |
Behind the Apennine or Alp | G |
Or into the deep bosom of the sea | F |
The moon descends the world grows dim | H |
The shadows disappear darkness profound | I |
Falls on each hill and vale around | I |
And night is desolate | J |
And singing with his plaintive lay | K |
The parting gleam of friendly light | A |
The traveller greets whose radiance bright | A |
Till now hath guided him upon his way | K |
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So vanishes so desolate | J |
Youth leaves our mortal state | L |
The shadows disappear | M |
And the illusions dear | M |
And in the distance fading all are seen | N |
The hopes on which our suffering natures lean | N |
Abandoned and forlorn | O |
Our lives remain | P |
And the bewildered traveller in vain | P |
As he its course surveys | C |
To find the end or object tries | C |
Of the long path that still before him lies | C |
A hopeless darkness o'er him steals | C |
Himself an alien on the earth he feels | C |
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Too happy and too gay | K |
Would our hard lot appear | M |
To those who placed us here if youth | Q |
Whose every joy is born of pain | P |
Through all our days were suffered to remain | P |
Too merciful the law | R |
That sentences each animal to death | S |
Did not the road that leads to it | T |
E'er half completed unto us appear | M |
Than death itself more sad and drear | M |
Thou blest invention of the Gods | C |
And worthy of their intellects divine | U |
Old age the last of all our ills | C |
When our desires still linger on | V |
Though every ray of hope is gone | W |
When pleasure's fountains all are dried | X |
Our pains increasing every joy denied | X |
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Ye hills and vales and fields | C |
Though in the west hath set the radiant orb | Y |
That shed its lustre on the veil of night | A |
Will not long time remain bereft | Z |
In hopeless darkness left | Z |
Ye soon will see the eastern sky | A2 |
Grow white again the dawn arise | C |
Precursor of the sun | B2 |
Who with the splendor of his rays | C |
Will all the scene irradiate | L |
And with his floods of light | A |
The fields of heaven and earth will inundate | L |
But mortal life | C2 |
When lovely youth has gone | W |
Is colored with no other light | A |
And knows no other dawn | W |
The rest is hopeless wretchedness and gloom | D2 |
The journey's end the dark and silent tomb | D2 |
Giacomo Leopardi
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