Moonlight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHI JKLKCC| HE feigned a fine indifference | A |
| To be so prodigal of light | B |
| Knowing his piteous twisted things | C |
| Would lose the crooked marks of spite | B |
| When only moonbeams fit the dusk | D |
| And made his wicked world seem right | B |
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| But we forget so soon the shame | E |
| Conceiving sweetness if we can | F |
| Heaven the citadel itself | G |
| Illumined on the lunar plan | F |
| And I the chief of sinners I | H |
| The middlemost Victorian | I |
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| Now I shall ride the misty lake | J |
| With my own love and speak so low | K |
| That not a fishy thing shall hear | L |
| The secrets passing to and fro | K |
| Amid the moonlight poetries | C |
| O moonshine how unman us so | C |
John Crowe Ransom
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