St. Irvyne's Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC ADEDE AFGFH IJKJK ILIMF INFN| I | A |
| How swiftly through Heaven's wide expanse | B |
| Bright day's resplendent colours fade | C |
| How sweetly does the moonbeam's glance | B |
| With silver tint St Irvyne's glade | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| No cloud along the spangled air | D |
| Is borne upon the evening breeze | E |
| How solemn is the scene how fair | D |
| The moonbeams rest upon the trees | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Yon dark gray turret glimmers white | F |
| Upon it sits the mournful owl | G |
| Along the stillness of the night | F |
| Her melancholy shriekings roll | H |
| - | |
| IV | I |
| But not alone on Irvyne's tower | J |
| The silver moonbeam pours her ray | K |
| It gleams upon the ivied bower | J |
| It dances in the cascade's spray | K |
| - | |
| V | I |
| 'Ah why do dark ning shades conceal | L |
| The hour when man must cease to be | I |
| Why may not human minds unveil | M |
| The dim mists of futurity | F |
| - | |
| VI | I |
| 'The keenness of the world hath torn | N |
| The heart which opens to its blast | F |
| Despised neglected and forlorn | N |
| Sinks the wretch in death at last ' | - |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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