Moonlight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LBLB MNMN OPOP| As a pale phantom with a lamp | A |
| Ascends some ruin's hainted 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 |
| - | |
| 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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