Moonstruck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEEFFGHIIHJ KLJILIKKJGKIIIIMKM KGGGNNGF| Cold shone the moon with noise | A |
| The night went by | B |
| Trees uttered things of woe | C |
| Bent grass dared not grow | C |
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| Ah desperate man with haggard eyes | D |
| And hands that fence away the skies | D |
| On rock and briar stumbling | E |
| Is it fear of the storm's rumbling | E |
| Of the hissing cold rain | F |
| Or lightning's tragic pain | F |
| Drives you so madly | G |
| See see the patient moon | H |
| How she her course keeps | I |
| Through cloudy shallows and across black deeps | I |
| Now gone now shines soon | H |
| Where's cause for fear | J |
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| 'I shudder and shudder | K |
| At her bright light | L |
| I fear I fear | J |
| That she her fixt course follows | I |
| So still and white | L |
| Through deeps and shallows | I |
| With never a tremor | K |
| Naught shall disturb her | K |
| I fear I fear | J |
| What they may be | G |
| That secretly bind her | K |
| What hand holds the reins | I |
| Of those sightless forces | I |
| That govern her courses | I |
| Is it Setebos | I |
| Who deals in her command | M |
| Or that unseen Night Comer | K |
| With tender curst hand | M |
| I shudder and shudder ' | - |
| - | |
| Poor storm wisp wander | K |
| Wind shall not hurt thee | G |
| Rain not appal thee | G |
| Lightning not blast thee | G |
| Thou art worn so frail | N |
| Only the moonlight pale | N |
| To an ash shall burn thee | G |
| To an invisible Pain | F |
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
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