Market-night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL GMGM NOPO BQRQ STST UVUV SWSW EXEY ZA2ZB2 C2LD2L E2UE2 F2G2F2G2 H2I2H2I2 FJ2F| 'O Winds howl not so long and loud | A |
| Nor with your vengeance arm the snow | B |
| Bear hence each heavy loaded cloud | A |
| And let the twinkling Star beams glow | B |
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| 'Now sweeping floods rush down the slope | C |
| Wide scattering ruin Stars shine soon | D |
| No other light my Love can hope | C |
| Midnight will want the joyous Moon | D |
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| 'O guardian Spirits Ye that dwell | E |
| Where woods and pits and hollow ways | F |
| The lone night trav'ler's fancy swell | E |
| With fearful tales of older days | F |
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| 'Press round him guide his willing steed | G |
| Through darkness dangers currents snows | H |
| Wait where from shelt'ring thickets freed | G |
| The dreary Heath's rude whirlwind blows | H |
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| 'From darkness rushing o'er his way | I |
| The Thorn's white load it bears on high | J |
| Where the short furze all shrouded lay | I |
| Mounts the dried grass Earth's bosom dry | J |
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| 'Then o'er the Hill with furious sweep | K |
| It rends the elevated tree | L |
| Sure footed beast thy road thou'lt keep | K |
| Nor storm nor darkness startles thee | L |
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| 'O blest assurance trusty steed | G |
| To thee the buried road is known | M |
| Home all the spur thy footsteps need | G |
| When loose the frozen rein is thrown | M |
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| 'Between the roaring blasts that shake | N |
| The naked Elder at the door | O |
| Though not one prattler to me speak | P |
| Their sleeping sighs delight me more | O |
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| 'Sound is their rest they little know | B |
| What pain what cold their Father feels | Q |
| But dream perhaps they see him now | R |
| While each the promis'd Orange peels | Q |
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| Would it were so the fire burns bright | S |
| And on the warming trencher gleams | T |
| In Expectation's raptur'd sight | S |
| How precious his arrival seems | T |
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| 'I'll look abroad 'tis piercing cold | U |
| How the bleak wind assails his breast | V |
| Yet some faint light mine eyes behold | U |
| The storm is verging o'er the West | V |
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| 'There shines a Star O welcome sight | S |
| Through the thin vapours brightening still | W |
| Yet 'twas beneath the fairest night | S |
| The murd'rer stained yon lonely Hill | W |
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| 'Mercy kind Heav'n such thoughts dispel | E |
| No voice no footstep can I hear | X |
| Where Night and Silence brooding dwell | E |
| Spreads thy cold reign heart chilling Fear | Y |
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| 'Distressing hour uncertain fate | Z |
| O Mercy Mercy guide him home | A2 |
| Hark then I heard the distant gate | Z |
| Repeat it Echo quickly come | B2 |
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| 'One minute now will ease my fears | C2 |
| Or still more wretched must I be | L |
| No surely Heaven has spar'd our tears | D2 |
| I see him cloath'd in snow 'tis he | L |
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| 'Where have you stay'd put down your load | E2 |
| How have you borne the storm the cold | U |
| What horrors did I not forebode | E2 |
| That Beast is worth his weight in gold ' | - |
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| Thus spoke the joyful Wife then ran | F2 |
| And hid in grateful steams her head | G2 |
| Dapple was hous'd the hungry Man | F2 |
| With joy glanc'd o'er the Children's bed | G2 |
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| 'What all asleep so best ' he cried | H2 |
| O what a night I've travell'd through | I2 |
| Unseen unheard I might have died | H2 |
| But Heaven has brought me safe to you | I2 |
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| 'Dear Partner of my nights and days | F |
| That smile becomes thee Let us then | J2 |
| Learn though mishap may cross our ways | F |
| It is not ours to reckon when ' | - |
Robert Bloomfield
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