A November Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCECFGFHIJKLMNOPQ RSTUVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F 2G2H2I2CJ2H2K2CL2M2N 2M2O2P2UAM2Q2CR2A2C E2S2B2 Q2CE2T2G2E2CUU2V2W2X 2G2R2CY2Z2VA3B3Y2| There 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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