Night, A Phantasy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCCAA AADEFFGHGIIHAA AAAJJJKLLFKMMNNFAAII

Night the horrible wizard NightA
The dumb and terrible NightA
Hath drawn his circle of magic roundB
Over the sky and over the groundB
Without a soundB
Ah me what woeful phantoms riseC
With ice cold hands and pitiless eyesC
As stars grow out of the summer skiesC
Tangible things to mortal sightA
Under the hands of the wizard NightA
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Night the mystical prophet NightA
The haunted and awful NightA
With the trail of his garment's shadowy fallD
Soundless and black as a funeral pallE
Now enters his dread laboratoryF
A wan and faint and wavering gloryF
Shines from a veiled lamp somewhere hiddenG
Like a lily in a graveH
And things unholy and things forbiddenG
Hands that have long been the earth worm's preyI
And shrouded faces out of the clayI
Rise and fill the enchanted caveH
With a pale and deathly lightA
The haunted and awful NightA
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Night the abhorred magician NightA
The black astrologer NightA
Night is the world I shiver with frightA
The air is full of evil thingsJ
The coil and glitter of snaky ringsJ
And the tremor of vast invisible wingsJ
That are not heard but feltK
They touch my hair my hand my cheekL
They mope and mouth but they never speakL
To utter their awful historyF
Oh when will the darkness break and meltK
Like blocks of ice on a golden reefM
And little by little as leaf by leafM
In light and color and form increasedN
The rose of morning blooms in the eastN
The old yet ever new mysteryF
And I fall on my knees to worship the lightA
That casts out the evil demon of NightA
And hallows with blossoms like prayers the wayI
Of another new dayI

Kate Seymour Maclean



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