Night In State Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Art thou heA
The seer and sage the hero and lover yeaB
The man of men then away from the haughtyA
dayB
Come with meA
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Ho ho to the nightC
The spangled night that would the noon outstareD
Her skirts are fringed with lightC
She is girdled and crowned with gems of fire that flareD
The city is dizzy with the thrill of herD
Her shining eyes and shadowy floating hairD
And curious winds her nebulous garments blurD
Blowing her moon white limbs and bosom bareD
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She beckons meA
Down the deep street she goes to keep her trystE
Come come oh follow oh seeA
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The many windowed walls uprear so highF
They dim and quiver and float away in mistE
Tangling the earth and skyF
And the pale stars go byF
Like spirits masterful and still and strongG
Dragging the heavy nets of life alongG
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Down in the deepH
Lightly the nets enmesh us with the swarmI
Of huddled human things that soft and warmI
Beat out so close the pulses of their livesJ
We crowd and creepH
We jostle and push out of our halls and hivesK
We chatter and laugh and weepH
Ah do you hearD
The choral of voices each the secret hidingL
Do you see the warren of souls each one abidingL
In separate solitude remote austereD
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Here in the glare of the street we cling togetherD
Against the warning darkness the still height Of the awful nightC
We blow like a featherD
From hope to hope along the winds of fateM
ImportunateM
The lettered lights that twinkle in and outM
Lure us and laugh at us beckon and floutM
Flashing their slangy symbols in our eyesN
Blurting their gaudy liesN
The bold shop windows flaunt their empty waresO
Jewelled or tinselled shows of thingsP
The fripperies and furnishingsP
Wherein stark life will stifle her shiveringsP
Ere forth in the dawn she faresP
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Ah tyranny perilousP
Vain shows that master usP
See the gay girls fluttering wistfullyA
Where waxen dummies grin in gowns of laceP
Watch yonder woman in black whose dimmed eyes seeA
Soft baby things folded with tender graceP
And look at the children crowding and shouting thereD
Where dancing dolls jiggle and jerk and stareD
They hover and clingL
Possessed by signs and shadows of the thingL
They moor their barkQ
Close to the shore and fathom not the darkQ
The dark that glooms afarD
Beyond the invisible starD
Beyond faith's boundariesP
The plausible was and isP
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Come ye adventurousP
Open your hearts to usP
You tiny newsboy calling extras thereD
Pitiful burden bearer pale with blightM
What of the nightM
The sullen night that brings you little oneR
So heavy a load of careD
While happier children sleep from sun to sunR
And you wan youth haggard and spentM
By mad thirst driven and rentM
Thirst of the body thirst of the soulS
To what dark goalS
Does reeling night lead you her listless preyD
To gorge you and slayD
And hide forever from the searching dayD
And you furtive and flaunting girlT
Whose heavy lidded eyes unfurlT
Red signal fires the while demureD
Your brooding lips deny their lureD
Ah does the lewd night lash you to her caveU
And will you never her ribald rage out braveU
And rise no more forlornV
To greet the mornV
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The street grows insolentM
With cries of dark delightM
And gestures impudentM
It rends the robe of nightM
Up to the silent skyF
It shouts the human cryF
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The crowds push in and outM
By all the open waysP
Eager to stare and shoutM
At vaudeville waifs of playsP
They drop their coins and laughW
At the wheezy phonographW
They hush for the noisy droneX
Of the croaking megaphoneX
That litters life with jestM
They pause that they may not goY
On life's eternal questM
They stifle truth with speechZ
They mimic love with lustM
For the glitter of gilt they reachZ
And cover the gold with dustM
They stoop to the din and glareD
Who have the lofty night for comrade rareD
They grope along the groundM
Whose stature like the night with stars is crownedM
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Oh piteousP
Oh struggle vainA2
Of puppets emulousP
We strive and strainA2
To forge for our limbs a chainA2
Come thou deep hearted Night so dark and brightM
Come holy Night come lawless dissolute NightM
Come human Night hushing thy dreams divineB2
Give me thy dreams O Night they shall be mineB2
Mine and this beggar's though we lie to theeA
Mine and this harlot's though from thee weA
flee Mine and this worldling's though with might and rightM
We hide them from our sightM
Thy shadowed eyes the truth behold and weA
We too shall know the truth and so be freeA
Even now yea nowC2
Through lies and vanities we pry and peerD
Even now we bowC2
At little shrines where pale fires flicker and fleerD
Hark in the echoing streetM
The drums that bang and beatM
Where the curb stone preachers tellD2
The way to heaven and hellD2
Look in yon window thereD
A man through a glass astareD
At atoms and embryosP
The source whence all life flowsP
Search the beginning and endM
We may not choose but followY
Yes you and I and theseP
The fume of the noisome hollowY
The gleam of the PleiadesP
Wherever one goes in questM
With his quest we are cursed or blestM
And the street with its blazing mockery ofE2
noon Leads on to the quiet stars to the lofty moonF2
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The little lights go out now row on rowY
The dim crowds glide awayD
The shadowed streetM
Pillars the vaulted skyF
And Night proud NightM
Rapt in her dreams with stately tread and slowY
Patrols the drowsy world O friend completeM
How may we read her deep delight arightM
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Art thou heA
The seer and sage the hero and lover yeaD
The man of men then even to the gates of dayD
Lead thou meA

Harriet Monroe



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