The Night Watch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPDDQQRRSS| Beneath the trees with heedful step and slow | A |
| At night I go | A |
| Fearful upon their whispering to break | B |
| Lest they awake | B |
| Out of those dreams of heavenly light that fill | C |
| Their branches still | C |
| With a soft murmur of memoried ecstasy | D |
| There 'neath each tree | D |
| Nightlong a spirit watches and I feel | E |
| His breath unseal | E |
| The fast shut thoughts and longings of tired day | F |
| That flutter away | F |
| Mothlike on luminous soft wings and frail | G |
| And moonlike pale | G |
| There in the flowering chestnuts' bowering gloom | H |
| And limes' perfume | H |
| Wandering wavelike through the moondrawn night | I |
| That heaves toward light | I |
| There hang I my dark thoughts and deeper prayers | J |
| And as the airs | J |
| Of star kissed dawn come stirring and o'er creep | K |
| The ford of sleep | K |
| Thy shape great Love grows shadowy in the East | L |
| Thine accents least | L |
| Of all those warring voices of false morn | M |
| And oh forlorn | M |
| Thy hope thy courage vanishing thine eyes | N |
| Sad with surprise | N |
| Oh with the dawn I know I know how vain | O |
| Is love that's fain | O |
| To beat and beat against her obstinate door | P |
| For as once more | P |
| It groans she passes out not heeding me | D |
| Nay will not see | D |
| As when a man rich and of high estate | Q |
| Sees at his gate | Q |
| Or will not see a famishing poor wretch | R |
| Whose longings fetch | R |
| Old anger from his pain imprisoning breast | S |
| Till sad despair his anger puts to rest | S |
John Freeman
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