Moonset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEED FGGF HIIH JKK J LMML| Past seven o'clock time to be gone | A |
| Twelfth night's over and dawn shivering up | B |
| A hasty cut of the loaf a steaming cup | B |
| Down to the door and there is Coachman John | C |
| - | |
| Ruddy of cheek is John and bright of eye | D |
| But John it appears has none of your grins and winks | E |
| Civil enough but short perhaps he thinks | E |
| Words come once in a mile and always dry | D |
| - | |
| Has he a mind or not I wonder but soon | F |
| We turn through a leafless wood and there to the right | G |
| Like a sun bewitched in alien realms of night | G |
| Mellow and yellow and rounded hangs the moon | F |
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| Strangely near she seems and terribly great | H |
| The world is dead why are we travelling still | I |
| Nightmare silence grips my struggling will | I |
| We are driving for ever and ever to find a gate | H |
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| 'When you come to consider the moon ' says John at last | J |
| And stops to feel his footing and take his stand | K |
| 'And then there's some will say there's never a hand | K |
| That made the world ' | - |
| A flick and the gates are passed | J |
| - | |
| Out of the dim magical moonlit park | L |
| Out to the workday road and wider skies | M |
| There's a warm flush in the East where day's to rise | M |
| And I'm feeling the better for Coachman John's remark | L |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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