Sonnet To A Taper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCDEDEFF| 'Tis midnight On the globe dead slumber sits | A |
| And all is silence in the hour of sleep | B |
| Save when the hollow gust that swells by fits | A |
| In the dark wood roars fearfully and deep | B |
| I wake alone to listen and to weep | B |
| To watch my taper thy pale beacon burn | C |
| And as still Memory does her vigils keep | B |
| To think of days that never can return | C |
| By thy pale ray I raise my languid head | D |
| My eye surveys the solitary gloom | E |
| And the sad meaning tear unmix'd with dread | D |
| Tells thou dost light me to the silent tomb | E |
| Like thee I wane like thine my life's last ray | F |
| Will fade in loneliness unwept away | F |
Henry Kirk White
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About Sonnet To A Taper
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