Musings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GGGG BGBG GGGG GGGG BHIH| I sat by my window one night | A |
| And watched how the stars grew high | B |
| And the earth and skies were a splendid sight | A |
| To a sober and musing eye | B |
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| From heaven the silver moon shone down | C |
| With gentle and mellow ray | D |
| And beneath the crowded roofs of the town | C |
| In broad light and shadow lay | D |
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| A glory was on the silent sea | E |
| And mainland and island too | F |
| Till a haze came over the lowland lea | E |
| And shrouded that beautiful blue | F |
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| Bright in the moon the autumn wood | G |
| Its crimson scarf unrolled | G |
| And the trees like a splendid army stood | G |
| In a panoply of gold | G |
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| I saw them waving their banners high | B |
| As their crests to the night wind bowed | G |
| And a distant sound on the air went by | B |
| Like the whispering of a crowd | G |
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| Then I watched from my window how fast | G |
| The lights all around me fled | G |
| As the wearied man to his slumber passed | G |
| And the sick one to his bed | G |
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| All faded save one that burned | G |
| With distant and steady light | G |
| But that too went out and I turned | G |
| Where my own lamp within shone bright | G |
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| Thus thought I our joys must die | B |
| Yes the brightest from earth we win | H |
| Till each turns away with a sign | I |
| To the lamp that burns brightly within | H |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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