The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CAA DCC EDD BEEB| If the Moon had a hand | A |
| I wonder would she | B |
| Stretch it down unto me | B |
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| If she did I would go | C |
| To her glacier land | A |
| To her ice covered strand | A |
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| I would run I would fly | D |
| Were the cold ever so | C |
| And be warm in the snow | C |
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| O Moon of all Light | E |
| Sailing far sailing high | D |
| In the infinite sky | D |
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| Do not come down to me | B |
| Lest I shriek in affright | E |
| Lest I die in the night | E |
| Of your chill ecstasy | B |
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