August Moonrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDDEFFGHHHIIJEJ GKKLMLMNNOOPPQRRSEQQ SE| The sun was gone and the moon was coming | A |
| Over the blue Connecticut hills | B |
| The west was rosy the east was flushed | C |
| And over my head the swallows rushed | C |
| This way and that with changeful wills | B |
| I heard them twitter and watched them dart | D |
| Now together and now apart | D |
| Like dark petals blown from a tree | E |
| The maples stamped against the west | F |
| Were black and stately and full of rest | F |
| And the hazy orange moon grew up | G |
| And slowly changed to yellow gold | H |
| While the hills were darkened fold on fold | H |
| To a deeper blue than a flower could hold | H |
| Down the hill I went and then | I |
| I forgot the ways of men | I |
| For night scents heady and damp and cool | J |
| Wakened ecstasy in me | E |
| On the brink of a shining pool | J |
| - | |
| O Beauty out of many a cup | G |
| You have made me drunk and wild | K |
| Ever since I was a child | K |
| But when have I been sure as now | L |
| That no bitterness can bend | M |
| And no sorrow wholly bow | L |
| One who loves you to the end | M |
| And though I must give my breath | N |
| And my laughter all to death | N |
| And my eyes through which joy came | O |
| And my heart a wavering flame | O |
| If all must leave me and go back | P |
| Along a blind and fearful track | P |
| So that you can make anew | Q |
| Fusing with intenser fire | R |
| Something nearer your desire | R |
| If my soul must go alone | S |
| Through a cold infinity | E |
| Or even if it vanish too | Q |
| Beauty I have worshipped you | Q |
| - | |
| Let this single hour atone | S |
| For the theft of all of me | E |
Sara Teasdale
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