Last Night-- And This Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HGGI| Last night how deep the darkness was | A |
| And well I knew its depths because | B |
| I waded it from shore to shore | C |
| Thinking to reach the light no more | C |
| - | |
| She would not even touch my hand | D |
| The winds rose and the cedars fanned | D |
| The moon out and the stars fled back | E |
| In heaven and hid and all was black | E |
| - | |
| But ah To night a summons came | F |
| Signed with a tear drop for a name | F |
| For as I wondering kissed it lo | G |
| A line beneath it told me so | G |
| - | |
| And now the moon hangs over me | H |
| A disk of dazzling brilliancy | G |
| And every star tip stabs my sights | G |
| With splintered glitterings of light | I |
James Whitcomb Riley
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