Star-gazer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDEBF GHIHJIKK| Forty two years ago to me if to no one else | A |
| The number is of some interest it was a brilliant starry night | B |
| And the westward train was empty and had no corridors | C |
| So darting from side to side I could catch the unwonted sight | B |
| Of those almost intolerably bright | B |
| Holes punched in the sky which excited me partly because | D |
| Of their Latin names and partly because I had read in the textbooks | E |
| How very far off they were it seemed their light | B |
| Had left them some at least long years before I was | F |
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| And this remembering now I mark that what | G |
| Light was leaving some of them at least then | H |
| Forty two years ago will never arrive | I |
| In time for me to catch it which light when | H |
| It does get here may find that there is not | J |
| Anyone left alive | I |
| To run from side to side in a late night train | K |
| Admiring it and adding noughts in vain | K |
Louis Macneice
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