A November Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCECFGFHIJKLMNOPQ RSTUVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F 2G2H2I2CJ2H2K2CL2M2N 2M2O2P2UAM2Q2CR2A2C E2S2B2 Q2CE2T2G2E2CUU2V2W2X 2G2R2CY2Z2VA3B3Y2

There See the line of lightsA
A chain of stars down either side the streetB
Why can't you lift the chain and give it to meC
A necklace for my throat I'd twist it roundD
And you could play with it You smile at meC
As though I were a little dreamy childE
Behind whose eyes the fairies live And seeC
The people on the street look up at usF
All envious We are a king and queenG
Our royal carriage is a motor busF
We watch our subjects with a haughty joyH
How still you are Have you been hard at workI
And are you tired to night It is so longJ
Since I have seen you four whole days I thinkK
My heart is crowded full of foolish thoughtsL
Like early flowers in an April meadowM
And I must give them to you all of themN
Before they fade The people I have metO
The play I saw the trivial shifting thingsP
That loom too big or shrink too little shadowsQ
That hurry gesturing along a wallR
Haunting or gay and yet they all grow realS
And take their proper size here in my heartT
When you have seen them There's the Plaza nowU
A lake of light To night it almost seemsV
That all the lights are gathered in your eyesW
Drawn somehow toward you See the open parkX
Lying below us with a million lampsY
Scattered in wise disorder like the starsZ
We look down on them as God must look downA2
On constellations floating under HimB2
Tangled in clouds Come then and let us walkC2
Since we have reached the park It is our gardenD2
All black and blossomless this winter nightE2
But we bring April with us you and IF2
We set the whole world on the trail of springG2
I think that every path we ever tookH2
Has marked our footprints in mysterious fireI2
Delicate gold that only fairies seeC
When they wake up at dawn in hollow tree trunksJ2
And come out on the drowsy park they lookH2
Along the empty paths and say Oh hereK2
They went and here and here and here Come seeC
Here is their bench take hands and let us danceL2
About it in a windy ring and makeM2
A circle round it only they can crossN2
When they come back again Look at the lakeM2
Do you remember how we watched the swansO2
That night in late October while they sleptP2
Swans must have stately dreams I think But nowU
The lake bears only thin reflected lightsA
That shake a little How I long to takeM2
One from the cold black water new made goldQ2
To give you in your hand And see and seeC
There is a star deep in the lake a starR2
Oh dimmer than a pearl if you stoop downA2
Your hand could almost reach it up to meC
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There was a new frail yellow moon to nightE2
I wish you could have had it for a cupS2
With stars like dew to fill it to the brimB2
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How cold it is Even the lights are coldQ2
They have put shawls of fog around them seeC
What if the air should grow so dimly whiteE2
That we would lose our way along the pathsT2
Made new by walls of moving mist recedingG2
The more we follow What a silver nightE2
That was our bench the time you said to meC
The long new poem but how different nowU
How eerie with the curtain of the fogU2
Making it strange to all the friendly treesV2
There is no wind and yet great curving scrollsW2
Carve themselves ever changing in the mistX2
Walk on a little let me stand here watchingG2
To see you too grown strange to me and farR2
I used to wonder how the park would beC
If one night we could have it all aloneY2
No lovers with close arm encircled waistsZ2
To whisper and break in upon our dreamsV
And now we have it Every wish comes trueA3
We are alone now in a fleecy worldB3
Even the stars have gone We two aloneY2

Sara Teasdale



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