The Vesper Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCC EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL GMGMBNBN| Soft and holy Vesper Hour | A |
| Precursor of the night | B |
| How I love thy soothing power | A |
| The hush the fading light | B |
| Raising those vain thoughts of ours | C |
| To higher holier things | D |
| Mingling gleams from Eden s bowers | C |
| With earth s imaginings | C |
| - | |
| How thrilling in some grand old fane | E |
| To hear the Vesper prayer | F |
| Rise with the organ s solemn strain | E |
| On incense laden air | F |
| While the last dying smiles of day | G |
| Athwart the stained glass pour | H |
| Flooding with red and golden ray | G |
| The shrine and chancel floor | H |
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| Who at such moment has not felt | I |
| Those yearnings vague yet sweet | J |
| For Heaven s joys at last to melt | I |
| Into fruition meet | J |
| And wished as with rapt soul he viewed | K |
| That glorious Home above | L |
| That earth s vain thoughts would ne er intrude | K |
| On visions of God s love | L |
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| To this calm hour belongs a sway | G |
| The bright day cannot wield | M |
| Sweet as the evening star s first ray | G |
| Transforming wood and field | M |
| Soft ing gay flowers else too bright | B |
| And silvering hill and dell | N |
| And clothing earth in that mild light | B |
| The sad heart loves so well | N |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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