Night Rhapsody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIFJKLMN AOPQLRSDTUVWX AYZA2AB2C2D2DGE2QZ AF2G2B2H2DRI2RRJ2 AORK2LRL2RM2N2RO2P2R AQ2RR2S2N2ST2DN2U2V2 RW2X2A| How beautiful it is to wake at night | A |
| When over all there reigns the ultimate spell | B |
| Of complete silence darkness absolute | C |
| To feel the world tilted on axle tree | D |
| In slow gyration with no sensible sound | E |
| Unless to ears of unimagined beings | F |
| Resident incorporeal or stretched | G |
| In vigilance of ecstasy among | H |
| Ethereal paths and the celestial maze | I |
| The rumour of our onward course now brings | F |
| A steady rustle as of some strange ship | J |
| Darkling with soundless sail all set and amply filled | K |
| By volume of an ever constant air | L |
| At fullest night through seas for ever calm | M |
| Swept lovely and unknown for ever on | N |
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| How beautiful it is to wake at night | A |
| Embalmed in darkness watchful sweet and still | O |
| As is the brain's mood flattered by the swim | P |
| Of currents circumvolvent in the void | Q |
| To lie quite still and to become aware | L |
| Of the dim light cast by nocturnal skies | R |
| On a dim earth beyond the window ledge | S |
| So isolate from the friendly company | D |
| Of the huge universe which turns without | T |
| To brood apart in calm and joy awhile | U |
| Until the spirit sinks and scarcely knows | V |
| Whether self is or if self only is | W |
| For ever | X |
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| How beautiful to wake at night | A |
| Within the room grown strange and still and sweet | Y |
| And live a century while in the dark | Z |
| The dripping wheel of silence slowly turns | A2 |
| To watch the window open on the night | A |
| A dewy silent deep where nothing stirs | B2 |
| And lying thus to feel dilate within | C2 |
| The press the conflict and the heavy pulse | D2 |
| Of incommunicable sad ecstasy | D |
| Growing until the body seems outstretched | G |
| In perfect crucifixion on the arms | E2 |
| Of a cross pointing from last void to void | Q |
| While the heart dies to a mere midway spark | Z |
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| All happiness thou holdest happy night | A |
| For such as lie awake and feel dissolved | F2 |
| The peaceful spice of darkness and the cool | G2 |
| Breath hither blown from the ethereal flowers | B2 |
| That mist thy fields O happy happy wounds | H2 |
| Conditioned by existence in humanity | D |
| That have such powers to heal them slow sweet sighs | R |
| Torn from the bosom silent wails the birth | I2 |
| Of such long treasured tears as pain his eyes | R |
| Who waking hears the divine solicitudes | R |
| Of midnight with ineffable purport charged | J2 |
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| How beautiful it is to wake at night | A |
| Another night in darkness yet more still | O |
| Save when the myriad leaves on full fledged boughs | R |
| Filled rather by the perfume's wandering flood | K2 |
| Than by dispansion of the still sweet air | L |
| Shall from the furthest utter silences | R |
| In glimmering secrecy have gathered up | L2 |
| An host of whisperings and scattered sighs | R |
| To loose at last a sound as of the plunge | M2 |
| And lapsing seethe of some Pacific wave | N2 |
| Which risen from the star thronged outer troughs | R |
| Rolls in to wreathe with circling foam away | O2 |
| The flutter of the golden moths that haunt | P2 |
| The star's one glimmer daggered on wet sands | R |
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| So beautiful it is to wake at night | A |
| Imagination loudening with the surf | Q2 |
| Of the midsummer wind among the boughs | R |
| Gathers my spirit from the haunts remote | R2 |
| Of faintest silence and the shades of sleep | S2 |
| To bear me on the summit of her wave | N2 |
| Beyond known shores beyond the mortal edge | S |
| Of thought terrestrial to hold me poised | T2 |
| Above the frontiers of infinity | D |
| To which in the full reflux of the wave | N2 |
| Come soon I must bubble of solving foam | U2 |
| Borne to those other shores now never mine | V2 |
| Save for a hovering instant short as this | R |
| Which now sustains me ere I be drawn back | W2 |
| To learn again and wholly learn I trust | X2 |
| How beautiful it is to wake at night | A |
Robert Nichols
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