Aurora Borealis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBDBEEFCFCB GHBHEEIEJEK| Commemorative of the Dissolution of armies at the Peace | A |
| May | B |
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| What power disbands the Northern Lights | C |
| After their steely play | B |
| The lonely watcher feels an awe | D |
| Of Nature's sway | B |
| As when appearing | E |
| He marked their flashed uprearing | E |
| In the cold gloom | F |
| Retreatings and advancings | C |
| Like dallyings of doom | F |
| Transitions and enhancings | C |
| And bloody ray | B |
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| The phantom host has faded quite | G |
| Splendor and Terror gone | H |
| Portent or promise and gives way | B |
| To pale meek Dawn | H |
| The coming going | E |
| Alike in wonder showing | E |
| Alike the God | I |
| Decreeing and commanding | E |
| The million blades that glowed | J |
| The muster and disbanding | E |
| Midnight and Morn | K |
Herman Melville
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