Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The Two Spirits: An Allegory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCECAFGFHGIGA JKJDKJKA LMLHMLMH NJOPDQDP RSBHSCSH

FIRST SPIRITA
O thou who plum'd with strong desireB
Wouldst float above the earth bewareC
A Shadow tracks thy flight of fireB
Night is comingD
Bright are the regions of the airC
And among the winds and beamsE
It were delight to wander thereC
Night is coming SECOND SPIRITA
The deathless stars are bright aboveF
If I would cross the shade of nightG
Within my heart is the lamp of loveF
And that is dayH
And the moon will smile with gentle lightG
On my golden plumes where'er they moveI
The meteors will linger round my flightG
And make night day FIRST SPIRITA
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But if the whirlwinds of darkness wakenJ
Hail and lightning and stormy rainK
See the bounds of the air are shakenJ
Night is comingD
The red swift clouds of the hurricaneK
Yon declining sun have overtakenJ
The clash of the hail sweeps over the plainK
Night is coming SECOND SPIRITA
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I see the light and I hear the soundL
I'll sail on the flood of the tempest darkM
With the calm within and the light aroundL
Which makes night dayH
And thou when the gloom is deep and starkM
Look from thy dull earth slumber boundL
My moon like flight thou then mayst markM
On high far awayH
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Some say there is a precipiceN
Where one vast pine is frozen to ruinJ
O'er piles of snow and chasms of iceO
Mid Alpine mountainsP
And that the languid storm pursuingD
That winged shape for ever fliesQ
Round those hoar branches aye renewingD
Its a euml ry fountainsP
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Some say when nights are dry and dearR
And the death dews sleep on the morassS
Sweet whispers are heard by the travellerB
Which make night dayH
And a silver shape like his early love doth passS
Upborne by her wild and glittering hairC
And when he awakes on the fragrant grassS
He finds night dayH

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