The Night-blooming Cereus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC DDEEA FFGG HHIIA| FLOWER of the moon | A |
| Still white is her brow whom we worshiped on earth long ago | B |
| Yea purer than pearls in deep seas and more virgin than snow | B |
| The dull years veil their eyes from her shining and vanish afraid | C |
| Nor profane her with age the immortal nor dim her with shade | C |
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| It is we are unworthy we worldlings to dwell in her ways | D |
| We have broken her altars and silenced her voices of praise | D |
| She hath hearkened to singing more silvern seen raptures more bright | E |
| To some planet more pure she hath fled on the wings of the night | E |
| Flower of the moon | A |
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| Yet she loveth the world that forsook her for lo once a year | F |
| She Diana translucent pale scintillant down from her sphere | F |
| Floateth earthward like star laden music to bloom in a flower | G |
| And our hearts feel the spell of the goddess once more for an hour | G |
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| See she sitteth in splendor nor knoweth desire nor decay | H |
| And the night is a glory around her more bright than the day | H |
| And her breath hath the sweetness of worlds where no sorrow is known | I |
| And we long as we worship to follow her back to her own | I |
| Flower of the moon | A |
Harriet Monroe
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