A November Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCECFGFHIJKLMNOPQ RSTUVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F 2G2H2I2CJ2H2K2CL2M2N 2M2O2P2UAM2Q2CR2A2C E2S2B2 Q2CE2T2G2E2CUU2V2W2X 2G2R2CY2Z2VA3B3Y2There See the line of lights | A |
A chain of stars down either side the street | B |
Why can't you lift the chain and give it to me | C |
A necklace for my throat I'd twist it round | D |
And you could play with it You smile at me | C |
As though I were a little dreamy child | E |
Behind whose eyes the fairies live And see | C |
The people on the street look up at us | F |
All envious We are a king and queen | G |
Our royal carriage is a motor bus | F |
We watch our subjects with a haughty joy | H |
How still you are Have you been hard at work | I |
And are you tired to night It is so long | J |
Since I have seen you four whole days I think | K |
My heart is crowded full of foolish thoughts | L |
Like early flowers in an April meadow | M |
And I must give them to you all of them | N |
Before they fade The people I have met | O |
The play I saw the trivial shifting things | P |
That loom too big or shrink too little shadows | Q |
That hurry gesturing along a wall | R |
Haunting or gay and yet they all grow real | S |
And take their proper size here in my heart | T |
When you have seen them There's the Plaza now | U |
A lake of light To night it almost seems | V |
That all the lights are gathered in your eyes | W |
Drawn somehow toward you See the open park | X |
Lying below us with a million lamps | Y |
Scattered in wise disorder like the stars | Z |
We look down on them as God must look down | A2 |
On constellations floating under Him | B2 |
Tangled in clouds Come then and let us walk | C2 |
Since we have reached the park It is our garden | D2 |
All black and blossomless this winter night | E2 |
But we bring April with us you and I | F2 |
We set the whole world on the trail of spring | G2 |
I think that every path we ever took | H2 |
Has marked our footprints in mysterious fire | I2 |
Delicate gold that only fairies see | C |
When they wake up at dawn in hollow tree trunks | J2 |
And come out on the drowsy park they look | H2 |
Along the empty paths and say Oh here | K2 |
They went and here and here and here Come see | C |
Here is their bench take hands and let us dance | L2 |
About it in a windy ring and make | M2 |
A circle round it only they can cross | N2 |
When they come back again Look at the lake | M2 |
Do you remember how we watched the swans | O2 |
That night in late October while they slept | P2 |
Swans must have stately dreams I think But now | U |
The lake bears only thin reflected lights | A |
That shake a little How I long to take | M2 |
One from the cold black water new made gold | Q2 |
To give you in your hand And see and see | C |
There is a star deep in the lake a star | R2 |
Oh dimmer than a pearl if you stoop down | A2 |
Your hand could almost reach it up to me | C |
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There was a new frail yellow moon to night | E2 |
I wish you could have had it for a cup | S2 |
With stars like dew to fill it to the brim | B2 |
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How cold it is Even the lights are cold | Q2 |
They have put shawls of fog around them see | C |
What if the air should grow so dimly white | E2 |
That we would lose our way along the paths | T2 |
Made new by walls of moving mist receding | G2 |
The more we follow What a silver night | E2 |
That was our bench the time you said to me | C |
The long new poem but how different now | U |
How eerie with the curtain of the fog | U2 |
Making it strange to all the friendly trees | V2 |
There is no wind and yet great curving scrolls | W2 |
Carve themselves ever changing in the mist | X2 |
Walk on a little let me stand here watching | G2 |
To see you too grown strange to me and far | R2 |
I used to wonder how the park would be | C |
If one night we could have it all alone | Y2 |
No lovers with close arm encircled waists | Z2 |
To whisper and break in upon our dreams | V |
And now we have it Every wish comes true | A3 |
We are alone now in a fleecy world | B3 |
Even the stars have gone We two alone | Y2 |
Sara Teasdale
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