The Watch-light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE BGGB HIIH JKKJ LMM NKLN OPQO DRRD BSST| Above the roofs and chimney tops | A |
| And through the slow November rain | B |
| A light from some far attic pane | B |
| Shines twinkling through the water drops | A |
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| Some lonely watcher waits and weeps | C |
| Like me the step that comes not yet | D |
| Her watch for weary hours is set | D |
| While far below the city sleeps | C |
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| The level lamp rays lay the floors | E |
| And bridge the dark that lies below | F |
| O'er which my fancies come and go | F |
| And peep and listen at the doors | E |
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| And bring me word how sweet and plain | B |
| And quaint the lonely attic room | G |
| Where she sits singing in the gloom | G |
| Words sadder than the autumn rain | B |
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| A thousand times by sea and shore | H |
| In my wild dreams I see him lie | I |
| With face upturned toward the sky | I |
| Murdered and stiffening in his gore | H |
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| Or drowned and floating with the tide | J |
| Within some lonely midnight bay | K |
| His arms stretched toward me where he lay | K |
| And blue eyes staring fixed and wide | J |
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| Oh winds that rove o'er land and sea | L |
| Oh waves that lap the yellow sands | M |
| Oh hide your stealthy treacherous hands | M |
| And call no more his name to me ' | - |
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| Thus much I heard and unawares | N |
| The sense of pity stole away | K |
| My loneliness and misery | L |
| When lo a light step on the stairs | N |
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| Ah joy the step that brings my own | O |
| Safe from all harms and dangers in | P |
| My heart lifts up its thankful hymn | Q |
| And bids' good night to night and moan | O |
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| I sleep I rest and I forget | D |
| The bridge the night lamp's level beams | R |
| Till waiting out of happy dreams | R |
| I see her watch light shining yet | D |
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| God comfort those that watch in vain | B |
| I breathe to Him my voiceless prayer | S |
| Pity their tears and their despair | S |
| And bring the wanderers home again | T |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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