Under The Stars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLM NONOPQ RSRSTT UVUVWW XYXYOO| The breath of summer stirs the trees | A |
| A thousand roses round me bloom | B |
| Whose saffron petals give the breeze | A |
| A wealth of exquisite perfume | B |
| As climbing high with tendrils bold | C |
| They clothe the walls with cups of gold | C |
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| No sound disturbs the silence sweet | D |
| The weary birds have sunk to rest | E |
| For where the snow and sunset meet | D |
| The light is fading in the west | E |
| And now the carking cares of day | F |
| Slip lightly from my heart away | F |
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| The emptiness of social strife | G |
| The pettiness of human souls | H |
| The cheap frivolities of life | G |
| The keen pursuit of paltry goals | H |
| How small they seem beneath the dome | I |
| That shelters my Tyrolean home | I |
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| A shining mote our tiny earth | J |
| No furrow leaves in shoreless space | K |
| What is one brief existence worth | J |
| Which disappears and leaves no trace | K |
| That silent star strewn vault survives | L |
| The dawns and dusks of countless lives | M |
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| Why grieve dear heart Oblivion deep | N |
| Will soon enshroud both friend and foe | O |
| And those who laugh and those who weep | N |
| Must join the hosts of long ago | O |
| Whose transient hours of smiles and tears | P |
| Make up earth's wilderness of years | Q |
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| The sunset's glowing embers die | R |
| The snow peaks lose their crimson hue | S |
| Through deepening shades the ruddy sky | R |
| Burns slowly down to darkest blue | S |
| Wherein a million worlds of light | T |
| Announce the coming of the night | T |
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| I gaze and slowly my despair | U |
| At human wretchedness and crime | V |
| Gives place to hopes and visions fair | U |
| So much may be evolved by time | V |
| So much may yet men's souls surprise | W |
| Beneath the splendor of God's skies | W |
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| Some day somewhere in realms afar | X |
| His light may make all problems plain | Y |
| And justice on some happier star | X |
| May recompense this planet's pain | Y |
| And earth's bleak Golgothas of woe | O |
| Grow lovely in life's afterglow | O |
John L. Stoddard
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