Full Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFE GHGHIIH JKJKLLK MNMNKKO| As I walked out one harvest night | A |
| About the stroke of One | B |
| The Moon attained to her full height | A |
| Stood beaming like the Sun | B |
| She exorcised the ghostly wheat | C |
| To mute assent in Love's defeat | C |
| Whose tryst had now begun | B |
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| The fields lay sick beneath my tread | D |
| A tedious owlet cried | E |
| The nightingale above my head | D |
| With this or that replied | E |
| Like man and wife who nightly keep | F |
| Inconsequent debate in sleep | F |
| As they dream side by side | E |
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| Your phantom wore the moon's cold mask | G |
| My phantom wore the same | H |
| Forgetful of the feverish task | G |
| In hope of which they came | H |
| Each image held the other's eyes | I |
| And watched a grey distraction rise | I |
| To cloud the eager flame | H |
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| To cloud the eager flame of love | J |
| To fog the shining gate | K |
| They held the tyrannous queen above | J |
| Sole mover of their fate | K |
| They glared as marble statues glare | L |
| Across the tessellated stair | L |
| Or down the Halls of State | K |
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| And now cold earth was Arctic sea | M |
| Each breath came dagger keen | N |
| Two bergs of glinting ice were we | M |
| The broad moon sailed between | N |
| There swam the mermaids tailed and finned | K |
| And Love went by upon the wind | K |
| As though it had not been | O |
Robert Graves
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