Moon-lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FGHI JJKK AALL A MMNN DDOO KPQQ AARR QQRR A SSTT UUVW MMXX PPYY MMMM NNZZ| I | A |
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| The Moon is like a ping pong ball | B |
| I lean against the orchard wall | B |
| And see it soar into the void | C |
| A silky sphere of celluloid | C |
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| Then fairy fire enkindles it | D |
| Like gossamer by taper lit | D |
| Until it glows above the trees | E |
| As mellow as a Cheddar cheese | E |
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| And up and up I watch it press | F |
| Into appalling loneliness | G |
| Like realms of ice without a stain | H |
| A corpse Moon come to life again | I |
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| Ruthless it drowns a sturdy star | J |
| That seeks its regal way to bar | J |
| Seeming with conscious power to grow | K |
| And sweeter purer gladder glow | K |
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| Dreaming serenely up the sky | A |
| Until exultantly on high | A |
| It shimmers with superb delight | L |
| The silver navel of the night | L |
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| II | A |
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| I have a compact to commune | M |
| A monthly midnight with the Moon | M |
| Into its face I stare and stare | N |
| And find sweet understanding there | N |
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| As quiet as a toad I sit | D |
| And tell my tale of days to it | D |
| The tessellated yarn I've spun | O |
| In thirty spells of star and sun | O |
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| And the Moon listens pensively | K |
| As placid as a lamb to me | P |
| Until I think there's just us two | Q |
| In silver world of mist and dew | Q |
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| In all of spangled space but I | A |
| To stare moon struck into the sky | A |
| Of billion beings I alone | R |
| To praise the Moon as still as stone | R |
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| And seal a bond between us two | Q |
| Closer than mortal ever knew | Q |
| For as mute masses I intone | R |
| The Moon is mine and mine alone | R |
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| III | A |
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| To know the Moon as few men may | S |
| One must be just a little fey | S |
| And for our friendship's sake I'm glad | T |
| That I am just a trifle mad | T |
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| And one with all the wild wise things | U |
| The furtive folk of fur and wings | U |
| That hold the Moon within their eyes | V |
| And make it nightly sacrifice | W |
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| O I will watch the maiden Moon | M |
| Dance on the sea with silver shoon | M |
| But with the Queen Moon I will keep | X |
| My tryst when all the world's asleep | X |
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| As I have kept by land and sea | P |
| That tryst for half a century | P |
| Entranced in sibylline suspense | Y |
| Beyond a world of common sense | Y |
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| Until one night the Moon alone | M |
| Will look upon a graven stone | M |
| I wonder will it miss me then | M |
| Its lover more than other men | M |
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| Or will my wistful ghost be there | N |
| Down ages dim to stare and stare | N |
| On silver nights without a stir | Z |
| The Moon's Eternal Worshipper | Z |
Robert Service
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