Ode To The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBD EEFFGHHG IJIJKLDD MMDDNNOOPPQ RRSPSPQ TTUUGGVVWWXAXYOEOE CZAZBB| PALE GODDESS of the witching hour | A |
| Blest Contemplation's placid friend | B |
| Oft in my solitary bow'r | C |
| I mark thy lucid beam | D |
| From thy crystal car descend | B |
| Whitening the spangled heath and limpid sapphire stream | D |
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| And oft amidst the shades of night | E |
| I court thy undulating light | E |
| When Fairies dance around the verdant ring | F |
| Or frisk beside the bubbling spring | F |
| When the thoughtless SHEPHERD'S song | G |
| Echoes thro' the silent air | H |
| As he pens his fleecy care | H |
| Or plods with saunt'ring gait the dewy meads along | G |
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| CHASTE ORB as thro' the vaulted sky | I |
| Feath'ry clouds transparent sail | J |
| When thy languid weeping eye | I |
| Sheds its soft tears upon the painted vale | J |
| As I ponder o'er the floods | K |
| Or tread with listless step th'embow'ring woods | L |
| O let thy transitory beam | D |
| Soothe my sad mind with FANCY'S a ry dream | D |
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| Wrapt in REFLECTION let me trace | M |
| O'er the vast ethereal space | M |
| Stars whose twinkling fires illume | D |
| Dark brow'd NIGHT'S obtrusive gloom | D |
| Where across the concave wide | N |
| Flaming METEORS swiftly glide | N |
| Or along the milky way | O |
| Vapours shoot a silvery ray | O |
| And as I mark thy faint reclining head | P |
| Sinking on Ocean's pearly bed | P |
| Let REASON tell my soul thus all things fade | Q |
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| The Seasons change the garish SUN | R |
| When Day's burning car hath run | R |
| Its fiery course no more we view | S |
| While o'er the mountain's golden head | P |
| Streak'd with tints of crimson hue | S |
| Twilight's filmy curtains spread | P |
| Stealing o'er Nature's face a desolating shade | Q |
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| Yon musky FLOW'R that scents the earth | T |
| The SOD that gave its odours birth | T |
| The ROCK that breaks the torrent's force | U |
| The VALE that owns its wand'ring course | U |
| The woodlands where the vocal throng | G |
| Trill the wild melodious song | G |
| Thirsty desarts sands that glow | V |
| Mountains cap'd with flaky snow | V |
| Luxuriant groves enamell'd fields | W |
| All all prolific Nature yields | W |
| Alike shall end the sensate HEART | X |
| With all its passions all its fire | A |
| Touch'd by FATE'S unerring dart | X |
| Shall feel its vital strength expire | Y |
| Those eyes that beam with FRIENDSHIP'S ray | O |
| And glance ineffable delight | E |
| Shall shrink from LIFE'S translucid day | O |
| And close their fainting orbs in DEATH'S impervious night | E |
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| Then what remains for mortal pow'r | C |
| But TIME'S dull journey to beguile | Z |
| To deck with joy the winged hour | A |
| To meet its sorrows with a patient smile | Z |
| And when the toilsome pilgrimage shall end | B |
| To greet the tyrant as a welcome friend | B |
Mary Darby Robinson
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