Moon-bathers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMA DNOPO| Falls from her heaven the Moon and stars sink burning | A |
| Into the sea where blackness rims the sea | B |
| Silently quenched Faint light that the waves hold | C |
| Is only light remaining yet still gleam | D |
| The sands where those now sleeping young moon bathers | E |
| Came dripping out of the sea and from their arms | F |
| Shook flakes of light dancing on the foamy edge | G |
| Of quiet waves They were all things of light | H |
| Tossed from the sea to dance under the Moon | I |
| Her nuns dancing within her dying round | J |
| Clear limbs and breasts silvered with Moon and waves | K |
| And quick with windlike mood and body's joy | L |
| Withdrawn from alien vows by wave and wind | M |
| Lightly absolved and lightly all forgetting | A |
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| An hour ago they left Remains the gleam | D |
| Of their late motion on the salt sea meadow | N |
| As loveliest hues linger when the sun's gone | O |
| And float in the heavens and die in reedy pools | P |
| So slowly who shall say when light is gone | O |
John Frederick Freeman
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