In The Harbour: Moonlight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LBLB MNMN OPOPAs a pale phantom with a lamp | A |
Ascends some ruin's haunted stair | B |
So glides the moon along the damp | A |
Mysterious chambers of the air | B |
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Now hidden in cloud and now revealed | C |
As if this phantom full of pain | D |
Were by the crumbling walls concealed | C |
And at the windows seen again | E |
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Until at last serene and proud | F |
In all the splendor of her light | G |
She walks the terraces of cloud | F |
Supreme as Empress of the Night | G |
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I look but recognize no more | H |
Objects familiar to my view | I |
The very pathway to my door | H |
Is an enchanted avenue | I |
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All things are changed One mass of shade | J |
The elm trees drop their curtains down | K |
By palace park and colonnade | J |
I walk as in a foreign town | K |
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The very ground beneath my feet | L |
Is clothed with a diviner air | B |
While marble paves the silent street | L |
And glimmers in the empty square | B |
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Illusion Underneath there lies | M |
The common life of every day | N |
Only the spirit glorifies | M |
With its own tints the sober gray | N |
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In vain we look in vain uplift | O |
Our eyes to heaven if we are blind | P |
We see but what we have the gift | O |
Of seeing what we bring we find | P |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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