Night Piece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADC AEFAEF GHIGHI| Gaunt in gloom | A |
| The pale stars their torches | B |
| Enshrouded wave | C |
| Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint illume | A |
| Arches on soaring arches | D |
| Night's sindark nave | C |
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| Seraphim | A |
| The lost hosts awaken | E |
| To service till | F |
| In moonless gloom each lapses muted dim | A |
| Raised when she has and shaken | E |
| Her thurible | F |
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| And long and loud | G |
| To night's nave upsoaring | H |
| A starknell tolls | I |
| As the bleak incense surges cloud on cloud | G |
| Voidward from the adoring | H |
| Waste of souls | I |
James Joyce
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