Nightfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| O day so sicklied o'er with night | A |
| O dreadful fruit of fallen dusk | B |
| A Circe orange golden bright | A |
| With horror 'neath its husk | B |
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| And I who gave the promise heed | C |
| That made life's tempting surface fair | D |
| Have I not eaten to the seed | C |
| Its ashes of despair | D |
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| O silence of the drifted grass | E |
| And immemorial eloquence | F |
| Of stars and winds and waves that pass | E |
| And God's indifference | F |
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| Leave me alone with sleep that knows | G |
| Not any thing that life may keep | H |
| Not e'en the pulse that comes and goes | G |
| In germs that climb and creep | H |
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| Or if an aspiration pale | I |
| Must quicken there oh let the spot | J |
| Grow weeds that dost may so prevail | I |
| Where spirit once could not | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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