Crepuscular Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCD EEFFGGD HHIJKKLLDD| No creature stirs in the wide fields | A |
| The rifted western heaven yields | A |
| The dying sun's illumination | B |
| This is the hour of tribulation | B |
| When with clear sight of eve engendered | C |
| Day's homage to delusion rendered | C |
| Mute at her window sits the soul | D |
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| Clouds and skies and lakes and seas | E |
| Valleys and hills and grass and trees | E |
| Sun moon and stars all stand to her | F |
| Limbs of one lordless challenger | F |
| Who without deigning taunt or frown | G |
| Throws a perennial gauntlet down | G |
| Come conquer me and take thy toll | D |
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| No cowardice or fear she knows | H |
| But as once more she girds there grows | H |
| An unresign d hopelessness | I |
| From memory of former stress | J |
| Head bent she muses whilst he waits | K |
| How with such weapons dint his plates | K |
| How quell this vast and sleepless giant | L |
| Calmly immortally defiant | L |
| How fell him bind him and control | D |
| With a silver cord and a golden bowl | D |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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