Voices Of The Night : Hymn To The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABA BCBC BABA DADA DEDE DBDB| Aspasie trillistos | A |
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| I heard the trailing garments of the Night | B |
| Sweep through her marble halls | A |
| I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light | B |
| From the celestial walls | A |
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| I felt her presence by its spell of might | B |
| Stoop o'er me from above | C |
| The calm majestic presence of the Night | B |
| As of the one I love | C |
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| I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight | B |
| The manifold soft chimes | A |
| That fill the haunted chambers of the Night | B |
| Like some old poet's rhymes | A |
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| From the cool cisterns of the midnight air | D |
| My spirit drank repose | A |
| The fountain of perpetual peace flows there | D |
| From those deep cisterns flows | A |
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| O holy Night from thee I learn to bear | D |
| What man has borne before | E |
| Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care | D |
| And they complain no more | E |
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| Peace Peace Orestes like I breathe this prayer | D |
| Descend with broad winged flight | B |
| The welcome the thrice prayed for the most fair | D |
| The best beloved Night | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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