The Shadow (the Rocky Road To Dublin) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HBIB| Silence comes upon the night | A |
| Gone is all the cheerful day | B |
| The moon has disappeared from sight | A |
| Every star has gone away | B |
| - | |
| Sinking through the void and thence | C |
| Disappearing star and sky | D |
| In the stern and black immense | C |
| That has blinded every eye | D |
| - | |
| Silence crouches on the land | E |
| In the street a shadow lies | F |
| Cloaked in velvet wrappings and | G |
| With a mask upon her eyes | F |
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| Anonymous and terrible | H |
| Mother of the primal ray | B |
| Only night because thou art | I |
| In thyself excess of day | B |
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