The Passing Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFAF FHIHJH KALAMA NOAOPO QRSRTR LBOBUB VDODWDXD| In my loggia bright I watch to night | A |
| The full moon sailing by | B |
| From a crystal creek in a glaciered peak | C |
| It slipped to the open sky | B |
| And now rides free in a clear blue sea | D |
| With not an island nigh | B |
| - | |
| Through pearly haze its light displays | E |
| Each buttressed mountain side | F |
| And softly shines through stately pines | G |
| Where feudal castles hide | F |
| And every height grows dazzling white | A |
| In the foam of a silver tide | F |
| - | |
| From the eastern side of the valley wide | F |
| To its snow capped western rim | H |
| It will hold its way till the dawning day | I |
| Shall have made its disk grow dim | H |
| Then leaving the blue will drop from view | J |
| Behind the mountain's brim | H |
| - | |
| Whence did it climb on its path sublime | K |
| Ere it left that icy height | A |
| And where will it go when yonder snow | L |
| Is reached in the morning light | A |
| Will its face elsewhere be just as fair | M |
| When here it is lost to sight | A |
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| Why should I ask 'Tis a fruitless task | N |
| Enough that its splendor falls | O |
| On me to night in my loggia bright | A |
| Till the scene my soul enthralls | O |
| 'Tis a long time yet ere the moon will set | P |
| Behind those glittering walls | O |
| - | |
| And even when it sinks again | Q |
| Below that stainless crest | R |
| It will seem at last to have safely passed | S |
| To a haven of peace and rest | R |
| Like a happy soul that hath reached its goal | T |
| In the kingdom of the blest | R |
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| I also know not where I go | L |
| Nor whence I came or why | B |
| Nor can I guess what happiness | O |
| Or strange new world may lie | B |
| Beyond the vale through which I sail | U |
| Beneath another sky | B |
| - | |
| But as the moon which all too soon | V |
| Sinks down the west for me | D |
| To other eyes appears to rise | O |
| And glide on fair and free | D |
| So the frail boat in which I float | W |
| Though tempest worn it be | D |
| May cross life's brink and seem to sink | X |
| Yet sail another sea | D |
John L. Stoddard
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