Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKMNN OPQPRR STSTUU VWVWXX YZYZZZ A2B2A2B2C2C2| Night is the time for rest | A |
| How sweet when labors close | B |
| To gather round an aching breast | A |
| The curtain of repose | C |
| Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head | D |
| Down on our own delightful bed | D |
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| Night is the time for dreams | E |
| The gay romance of life | F |
| When truth that is and truth that seems | E |
| Blend in fantastic strife | F |
| Ah visions less beguiling far | G |
| Than waking dreams by daylight are | G |
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| Night is the time for toil | H |
| To plough the classic field | I |
| Intent to find the buried spoil | H |
| Its wealthy furrows yield | I |
| Till all is ours that sages taught | J |
| That poets sang or heroes wrought | J |
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| Night is the time to weep | K |
| To wet with unseen tears | L |
| Those graves of Memory where sleep | K |
| The joys of other years | M |
| Hopes that were Angels at their birth | N |
| But perished young like things of earth | N |
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| Night is the time to watch | O |
| O'er ocean's dark expanse | P |
| To hail the Pleiades or catch | Q |
| The full moon's earliest glance | P |
| That brings into the homesick mind | R |
| All we have loved and left behind | R |
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| Night is the time for care | S |
| Brooding on hours misspent | T |
| To see the spectre of Despair | S |
| Come to our lonely tent | T |
| Like Brutus 'midst his slumbering host | U |
| Summoned to die by Caesar's ghost | U |
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| Night is the time to think | V |
| When from the eye the soul | W |
| Takes flight and on the utmost brink | V |
| Of yonder starry pole | W |
| Descries beyond the abyss of night | X |
| The dawn of uncreated light | X |
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| Night is the time to pray | Y |
| Our Saviour oft withdrew | Z |
| To desert mountains far away | Y |
| So will his followers do | Z |
| Steal from the throng to haunts untrod | Z |
| And hold communion there with God | Z |
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| Night is the time for Death | A2 |
| When all around is peace | B2 |
| Calmly to yield the weary breath | A2 |
| From sin and suffering cease | B2 |
| Think of heaven's bliss and give the sign | C2 |
| To parting friends such death be mine | C2 |
James Montgomery
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