August Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHI JKL MLLLNLO LPQQLQRSTF TFLF LULV VW X YL ZQ| To F S | A |
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| In the smooth grey heaven is poised the pale half moon | B |
| And sheds on the wide grey river a broken reflection | C |
| Out from the low church tower the boats are moored | D |
| After the heat of the day and await the dark | E |
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| And here where the side of the road shelves into the river | F |
| At the gap where barges load and horses drink | G |
| There are no horses And the river is full | H |
| And the water stands by the shore and does not lap | I |
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| And a barge lies up for the night this side of the island | J |
| The bargeman sits in the bows and smokes his pipe | K |
| And his wife by the cabin stirs Behind me voices pass | L |
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| Calm sky calm river and a few calm things reflected | M |
| And all as yet keep their colours the island osiers | L |
| The ash white spots of umbelliferous flowers | L |
| And the yellow clay of its bank the barge's brown sails | L |
| That are furled up the mast and then make a lean triangle | N |
| To the end of the hoisted boom and the high dark slips | L |
| Where they used to build vessels and now build them no more | O |
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| All in the river reflected in quiet colours | L |
| Beyond the river sweeps round in a bend and is vast | P |
| A wide grey level under the motionless sky | Q |
| And the waxing moon clean cut in the mole grey sky | Q |
| Silence Time is suspended that the light fails | L |
| One would not know were it not for the moon in the sky | Q |
| And the broken moon in the water whose fractures tell | R |
| Of slow broad ripples that otherwise do not show | S |
| Maturing imperceptibly from a pale to a deeper gold | T |
| A golden half moon in the sky and broken gold in the water | F |
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| In the water tranquilly severing joining gold | T |
| Three or four little plates of gold on the river | F |
| A little motion of gold between the dark images | L |
| Of two tall posts that stand in the grey water | F |
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| There are voices passing a murmur of quiet voices | L |
| A woman's laugh and children going home | U |
| A whispering couple leaning over the railings | L |
| And somewhere a little splash as a dog goes in | V |
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| I have always known all this it has always been | V |
| There is no change anywhere nothing will ever change | W |
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| I heard a story a crazy and tiresome myth | X |
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| Listen behind the twilight a deep low sound | Y |
| Like the constant shutting of very distant doors | L |
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| Doors that are letting people over there | Z |
| Out to some other place beyond the end of the sky | Q |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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