In The Dark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED CFGF HIJI KLML NOHO| O in the depths of midnight | A |
| What fancies haunt the brain | B |
| When even the sigh of the sleeper | C |
| Sounds like a sob of pain | B |
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| A sense of awe and of wonder | C |
| I may never well define | D |
| For the thoughts that come in the shadows | E |
| Never come in the shine | D |
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| The old clock down in the parlor | C |
| Like a sleepless mourner grieves | F |
| And the seconds drip in the silence | G |
| As the rain drips from the eaves | F |
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| And I think of the hands that signal | H |
| The hours there in the gloom | I |
| And wonder what angel watchers | J |
| Wait in the darkened room | I |
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| And I think of the smiling faces | K |
| That used to watch and wait | L |
| Till the click of the clock was answered | M |
| By the click of the opening gate | L |
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| They are not there now in the evening | N |
| Morning or noon not there | O |
| Yet I know that they keep their vigil | H |
| And wait for me Somewhere | O |
James Whitcomb Riley
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