A May Night On The Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH IJIJKEKE LMLMNNNO| Tis a wonderful time when these hours begin | A |
| These long small hours of night | B |
| When grass is crisp and the air is thin | A |
| And the stars come close and bright | B |
| The moon hangs caught in a silvery veil | C |
| From clouds of a steely grey | D |
| And the hard cold blue of the sky grows pale | C |
| In the wonderful Milky Way | D |
| There is something wrong with this star of ours | E |
| A mortal plank unsound | F |
| That cannot be charged to the mighty powers | E |
| Who guide the stars around | F |
| Though man is higher than bird or beast | G |
| Though wisdom is still his boast | H |
| He surely resembles Nature least | G |
| And the things that vex her most | H |
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| Oh say some muse of a larger star | I |
| Some muse of the Universe | J |
| If they who people those planets far | I |
| Are better than we or worse | J |
| Are they exempted from deaths and births | K |
| And have they greater powers | E |
| And greater heavens and greater earths | K |
| And greater Gods than ours | E |
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| Are our lies theirs and our truth their truth | L |
| Are they cursed for pleasure s sake | M |
| Do they make their hells in their reckless youth | L |
| Ere they know what hells they make | M |
| And do they toil through each weary hour | N |
| Till the tedious day is o er | N |
| For food that gives but the fleeting power | N |
| To toil and strive for more | O |
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