The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHID JKJKLL MNMNOO CPCPQR STUTVW FHFXCC YWYVZZ| Through that pure virgin shrine | A |
| That sacred veil drawn o'er Thy glorious noon | B |
| That men might look and live as glowworms shine | A |
| And face the moon | B |
| Wise Nicodemus saw such light | C |
| As made him know his God by night | C |
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| Most blest believer he | D |
| Who in that land of darkness and blind eyes | E |
| Thy long expected healing wings could see | D |
| When Thou didst rise | E |
| And what can never more be done | F |
| Did at midnight speak with the Sun | F |
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| Oh who will tell me where | G |
| He found Thee at that dead and silent hour | H |
| What hallowed solitary ground did bear | G |
| So rare a flower | H |
| Within whose sacred leaves did lie | I |
| The fullness of the Deity | D |
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| No mercy seat of gold | J |
| No dead and dusty cherub nor carved stone | K |
| But His own living works did my Lord hold | J |
| And lodge alone | K |
| Where trees and herbs did watch and peep | L |
| And wonder while the Jews did sleep | L |
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| Dear night this world's defeat | M |
| The stop to busy fools care's check and curb | N |
| The day of spirits my soul's calm retreat | M |
| Which none disturb | N |
| Christ's progress and His prayer time | O |
| The hours to which high Heaven doth chime | O |
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| God's silent searching flight | C |
| When my Lord's head is filled with dew and all | P |
| His locks are wet with the clear drops of night | C |
| His still soft call | P |
| His knocking time the soul's dumb watch | Q |
| When spirits their fair kindred catch | R |
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| Were all my loud evil days | S |
| Calm and unhaunted as is thy dark tent | T |
| Whose peace but by some angel's wing or voice | U |
| Is seldom rent | T |
| Then I in heaven all the long year | V |
| Would keep and never wander here | W |
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| But living where the sun | F |
| Doth all things wake and where all mix and tire | H |
| Themselves and others I consent and run | F |
| To every mire | X |
| And by this world's ill guiding light | C |
| Err more than I can do by night | C |
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| There is in God some say | Y |
| A deep but dazzling darkness as men here | W |
| Say it is late and dusky because they | Y |
| See not all clear | V |
| Oh for that night where I in Him | Z |
| Might live invisible and dim | Z |
Henry Vaughan
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