A Night In June Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEEFFGH I JKKJJKKJLMMNLN| White as a lily moulded of Earth's milk | A |
| That eve the moon bloomed in a hyacinth sky | B |
| Soft in the gleaming glens the wind went by | B |
| Faint as a phantom clothed in unseen silk | A |
| Bright as a naiad's leap from shine to shade | C |
| The runnel twinkled through the shaken brier | D |
| Above the hills one long cloud pulsed with fire | D |
| Flashed like a great enchantment welded blade | C |
| And when the western sky seemed some weird land | E |
| And night a witching spell at whose command | E |
| One sloping star fell green from heav'n and deep | F |
| The warm rose opened for the moth to sleep | F |
| Then she consenting laid her hands in his | G |
| And lifted up her lips for their first kiss | H |
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| II | I |
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| There where they part the porch's steps are strewn | J |
| With wind blown petals of the purple vine | K |
| Athwart the porch the shadow of a pine | K |
| Cleaves the white moonlight and like some calm rune | J |
| Heaven says to Earth shines the majestic moon | J |
| And now a meteor draws a lilac line | K |
| Across the welkin as if God would sign | K |
| The perfect poem of this night of June | J |
| The wood wind stirs the flowering chestnut tree | L |
| Whose curving blossoms strew the glimmering grass | M |
| Like crescents that wind wrinkled waters glass | M |
| And like a moonstone in a frill of flame | N |
| The dewdropp trembles on the peony | L |
| As in a lover's heart his sweetheart's name | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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