To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBCE AFGHFGH AGFIGFI JKBHKBG| I | A |
| The keen stars were twinkling | B |
| And the fair moon was rising among them | C |
| Dear Jane | D |
| The guitar was tinkling | B |
| But the notes were not sweet till you sung them | C |
| Again | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| As the moon's soft splendour | F |
| O'er the faint cold starlight of Heaven | G |
| Is thrown | H |
| So your voice most tender | F |
| To the strings without soul had then given | G |
| Its own | H |
| - | |
| III | A |
| The stars will awaken | G |
| Though the moon sleep a full hour later | F |
| To night | I |
| No leaf will be shaken | G |
| Whilst the dews of your melody scatter | F |
| Delight | I |
| - | |
| IV | J |
| Though the sound overpowers | K |
| Sing again with your dear voice revealing | B |
| A tone | H |
| Of some world far from ours | K |
| Where music and moonlight and feeling | B |
| Are one | G |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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