To The Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH J| So far it is athwart the blue | A |
| To where yon star appears | B |
| That for its light to reach our view | A |
| Has needed thousand years | B |
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| Maybe that ages gone it shed | C |
| Its glow then languished in the skies | D |
| Yet only now its rays have sped | C |
| Their journey to our eyes | D |
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| The icon of the star that died | E |
| Slowly the vault ascended | F |
| Time was ere it could first be spied | E |
| We see now what is ended | F |
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| So is it when our love's aspire | G |
| Is hid beneath night's bowl | H |
| The gleam of its extinguished fire | I |
| Enkindles yet our soul | H |
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| Translated by Corneliu M Popescu | J |
Mihai Eminescu
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