That Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFGE HIHIDDI| You and I and that night with its perfume and glory | A |
| The scent of the locusts the light of the moon | B |
| And the violin weaving the waltzers a story | A |
| Enmeshing their feet in the weft of the tune | B |
| Till their shadows uncertain | C |
| Reeled round on the curtain | C |
| While under the trellis we drank in the June | B |
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| Soaked through with the midnight the cedars were sleeping | D |
| Their shadowy tresses outlined in the bright | E |
| Crystal moon smitten mists where the fountain's heart leaping | D |
| Forever forever burst full with delight | E |
| And its lisp on my spirit | F |
| Fell faint as that near it | G |
| Whose love like a lily bloomed out in the night | E |
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| O your glove was an odorous sachet of blisses | H |
| The breath of your fan was a breeze from Cathay | I |
| And the rose at your throat was a nest of spilled kisses | H |
| And the music in fancy I hear it to day | I |
| As I sit here confessing | D |
| Our secret and blessing | D |
| My rival who found us and waltzed you away | I |
James Whitcomb Riley
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