The Photograph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEAA FFGG HIJJ KKLK MMNO PPQQ| Suspending night with threads of light the sun with signals bold | A |
| Flashed o'er to moon his mate on high and wondrous secret told | A |
| Together they a photograph of mother earth would make | B |
| When midnight dropped her curtains low and watching stars locked gate | C |
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| I'll picture on thy pale round face an image vast complete | D |
| Of pondrous size with oceans wild and mountains high and steep | E |
| A hurling mass of seething lakes while outward beauties fold | A |
| It round and o'er with nature's green and tinted crusts of gold | A |
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| Quite pleased with thought fair lady moon laughed in merry glee | F |
| And begged the secret not reveal but plan all quietly | F |
| Appointing hour and length of time arranging for the place | G |
| Then hiding lights at midnight bells when earth passed o'er her face | G |
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| While swinging to a silvered chord attached to heaven's dome | H |
| To and fro 'mid seas of stars and spirit worlds unknown | I |
| Earth onward swept with mighty bounds measured space and soon | J |
| At place appointed and the hour she hovered near the moon | J |
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| But scheming of the comrades bright to her had been revealed | K |
| With telescopes and lenses strong were millions on the field | K |
| Of spots and specks as showered sand by fays called wo and man | L |
| Who gazed with awe at wondrous sight earth pictured in moonland | K |
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| Inspiring vision piled on high in masses huge and dense | M |
| Where camest thou thou ragged ball thrown out from time and whence | M |
| Doth thou intend to fathom realms of endless space and years | N |
| Art weary of thy dizzy flights Are rolling seas thy tears | O |
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| The silence mocks the questions sighed and nought but shadows fall | P |
| The picture made the fairies fade with dying notes they call | P |
| Doth see the Hand that holds the key Eclipse of moon they sing | Q |
| Go nations to thy dreamland couch and ponder o'er this thing | Q |
Mary Alice Walton
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