Night, A Phantasy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCCAA AADEFFGHGIIHAA AAAJJJKLLFKMMNNFAAIINight the horrible wizard Night | A |
The dumb and terrible Night | A |
Hath drawn his circle of magic round | B |
Over the sky and over the ground | B |
Without a sound | B |
Ah me what woeful phantoms rise | C |
With ice cold hands and pitiless eyes | C |
As stars grow out of the summer skies | C |
Tangible things to mortal sight | A |
Under the hands of the wizard Night | A |
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Night the mystical prophet Night | A |
The haunted and awful Night | A |
With the trail of his garment's shadowy fall | D |
Soundless and black as a funeral pall | E |
Now enters his dread laboratory | F |
A wan and faint and wavering glory | F |
Shines from a veiled lamp somewhere hidden | G |
Like a lily in a grave | H |
And things unholy and things forbidden | G |
Hands that have long been the earth worm's prey | I |
And shrouded faces out of the clay | I |
Rise and fill the enchanted cave | H |
With a pale and deathly light | A |
The haunted and awful Night | A |
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Night the abhorred magician Night | A |
The black astrologer Night | A |
Night is the world I shiver with fright | A |
The air is full of evil things | J |
The coil and glitter of snaky rings | J |
And the tremor of vast invisible wings | J |
That are not heard but felt | K |
They touch my hair my hand my cheek | L |
They mope and mouth but they never speak | L |
To utter their awful history | F |
Oh when will the darkness break and melt | K |
Like blocks of ice on a golden reef | M |
And little by little as leaf by leaf | M |
In light and color and form increased | N |
The rose of morning blooms in the east | N |
The old yet ever new mystery | F |
And I fall on my knees to worship the light | A |
That casts out the evil demon of Night | A |
And hallows with blossoms like prayers the way | I |
Of another new day | I |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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