Night Is On The Downland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FAFA FAFA| Night is on the downland on the lonely moorland | A |
| On the hills where the wind goes over sheep bitten turf | B |
| Where the bent grass beats upon the unplowed poorland | A |
| And the pine woods roar like the surf | B |
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| Here the Roman lived on the wind barren lonely | C |
| Dark now and haunted by the moorland fowl | D |
| None comes here now but the peewit only | C |
| And moth like death in the owl | D |
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| Beauty was here in on this beetle droning downland | A |
| The thought of a Caesar in the purple came | E |
| From the palace by the Tiber in the Roman townland | A |
| To this wind swept hill with no name | E |
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| Lonely Beauty came here and was here in sadness | F |
| Brave as a thought on the frontier of the mind | A |
| In the camp of the wild upon the march of madness | F |
| The bright eyed Queen of the Blind | A |
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| Now where Beauty was are the wind withered gorses | F |
| Moaning like old men in the hill wind's blast | A |
| The flying sky is dark with running horses | F |
| And the night is full of the past | A |
John Masefield
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