Night Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDADA DEDFAGAG HIHIDEDJ BCBCDADA KLKLMCMC KCKCNGNG KCKCKOKO| Le notte e madre dipensien | A |
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| I tumble and toss on my pillow | B |
| As a ship without rudder or spars | C |
| Is tumbled and tossed on the billow | B |
| 'Neath the glint and the glory of stars | C |
| 'Tis midnight and moonlight and slumber | D |
| Has hushed every heart but my own | A |
| O why are these thoughts without number | D |
| Sent to me by the man in the moon | A |
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| Thoughts of the Here and Hereafter | D |
| Thoughts all unbidden to come | E |
| Thoughts that are echoes of laughter | D |
| Thoughts that are ghosts from the tomb | F |
| Thoughts that are sweet as wild honey | A |
| Thoughts that are bitter as gall | G |
| Thoughts to be coined into money | A |
| Thoughts of no value at all | G |
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| Dreams that are tangled like wild wood | H |
| A hint creeping in like a hare | I |
| Visions of innocent childhood | H |
| Glimpses of pleasure and care | I |
| Brave thoughts that flash like a saber | D |
| Cowards that crouch as they come | E |
| Thoughts of sweet love and sweet labor | D |
| In the fields at the old cottage home | J |
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| Visions of maize and of meadow | B |
| Songs of the birds and the brooks | C |
| Glimpses of sunshine and shadow | B |
| Of hills and the vine covered nooks | C |
| Dreams that were dreams of a lover | D |
| A face like the blushing of morn | A |
| Hum of bees and the sweet scent of clover | D |
| And a bare headed girl in the corn | A |
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| Hopes that went down in the battle | K |
| Apples that crumbled to dust | L |
| Manna for rogues and the rattle | K |
| Of hail storms that fall on the just | L |
| The shoddy that lolls in her chariot | M |
| Maud Muller at work in the grass | C |
| Here a silver bribed Judas Iscariot | M |
| There Leonidas dead in the pass | C |
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| Commingled the good and the evil | K |
| Sown together the wheat and the tares | C |
| In the heart of the wheat is the weevil | K |
| There is joy in the midst of our cares | C |
| The past shall we stop to regret it | N |
| What is shall we falter and fall | G |
| If the envious wrong thee forget it | N |
| Let thy charity cover them all | G |
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| The cock hails the morn and the rumble | K |
| Of wheels is abroad in the streets | C |
| Still I tumble and mumble and grumble | K |
| At the fleas in my ears and the sheets | C |
| Mumble and grumble and tumble | K |
| Till the buzz of the bees is no more | O |
| In a jumble I mumble and drumble | K |
| And tumble off into a snore | O |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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