An Hymn To The Evening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEE FFGGHH II| Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main | A |
| The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain | A |
| Majestic grandeur From the zephyr's wing | B |
| Exhales the incense of the blooming spring | B |
| Soft purl the streams the birds renew their notes | C |
| And through the air their mingled music floats | C |
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| Through all the heav'ns what beauteous dies are spread | D |
| But the west glories in the deepest red | D |
| So may our breasts with ev'ry virtue glow | E |
| The living temples of our God below | E |
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| Fill'd with the praise of him who gives the light | F |
| And draws the sable curtains of the night | F |
| Let placid slumbers sooth each weary mind | G |
| At morn to wake more heav'nly more refin'd | G |
| So shall the labours of the day begin | H |
| More pure more guarded from the snares of sin | H |
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| Night's leaden sceptre seals my drowsy eyes | I |
| Then cease my song till fair Aurora rise | I |
Phillis Wheatley
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