The Impeachment Of Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEFEEF| Perch Febo non torce | A |
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| What time bright Phoebus doth not stretch and bend | B |
| His shining arms around this terrene sphere | C |
| The people call that season dark and drear | C |
| Night for the cause they do not comprehend | B |
| So weak is Night that if our hand extend | B |
| A glimmering torch her shadows disappear | C |
| Leaving her dead like frailest gossamere | C |
| Tinder and steel her mantle rive and rend | B |
| Nay if this Night be anything at all | D |
| Sure she is daughter of the sun and earth | E |
| This holds the other spreads that shadowy pall | F |
| Howbeit they err who praise this gloomy birth | E |
| So frail and desolate and void of mirth | E |
| That one poor firefly can her might appal | F |
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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