Iris By Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDDEFFGGHHIIJKL MMNNGGOPGPO| One misty evening one another's guide | A |
| We two were groping down a Malvern side | A |
| The last wet fields and dripping hedges home | B |
| There came a moment of confusing lights | C |
| Such as according to belief in Rome | B |
| Were seen of old at Memphis on the heights | C |
| Before the fragments of a former sun | D |
| Could concentrate anew and rise as one | D |
| Light was a paste of pigment in our eyes | E |
| And then there was a moon and then a scene | F |
| So watery as to seem submarine | F |
| In which we two stood saturated drowned | G |
| The clover mingled rowan on the ground | G |
| Had taken all the water it could as dew | H |
| And still the air was saturated too | H |
| Its airy pressure turned to water weight | I |
| Then a small rainbow like a trellis gate | I |
| A very small moon made prismatic bow | J |
| Stood closely over us through which to go | K |
| And then we were vouchsafed a miracle | L |
| That never yet to other two befell | M |
| And I alone of us have lived to tell | M |
| A wonder Bow and rainbow as it bent | N |
| Instead of moving with us as we went | N |
| To keep the pots of gold from being found | G |
| It lifted from its dewy pediment | G |
| Its two mote swimming many colored ends | O |
| And gathered them together in a ring | P |
| And we stood in it softly circled round | G |
| From all division time or foe can bring | P |
| In a relation of elected friends | O |
Robert Frost
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