In Tenebris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLML CNCNCDCD| All the lights have been extinguished | A |
| In my closely curtained room | B |
| Nothing now can be distinguished | A |
| In the all pervading gloom | B |
| And through darkness so alluring | C |
| I would float away to sleep | D |
| Like a boat that slips its mooring | C |
| And moves gently toward the deep | D |
| - | |
| How delightful this seclusion | E |
| From the garish light of day | F |
| All its turmoil and confusion | E |
| Pushed a little while away | F |
| Neither men nor things shall try me | G |
| Till to morrow brings its light | H |
| Let my cares go drifting by me | G |
| I'll not think of them to night | H |
| - | |
| Social cant and empty phrases | I |
| Base returns for kindness shown | J |
| Envy's serpent smile and praises | I |
| Which convey for bread a stone | J |
| What a joy to have rejected | K |
| All such griefs of evil born | L |
| What a boon to feel protected | M |
| From their advent until morn | L |
| - | |
| Moon and stars without are gleaming | C |
| Over snow capped peaks sublime | N |
| But to night I'll give to dreaming | C |
| Nor esteem it wasted time | N |
| Nay through darkness so alluring | C |
| I will float away to sleep | D |
| Like a boat that slips its mooring | C |
| And moves gently toward the deep | D |
John L. Stoddard
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