Evening Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHII EEJJAAJJJJKKJJII LLJJDDHHMMNOJJII EECCDDLLAAPPJJQQII RRSSJJII| Sinking now in floods of light | A |
| The sun resigns the world to night | A |
| When a lingering glance he turns | B |
| The glowing west with glory burns | B |
| And the blushing heavens awhile | C |
| Long retain his parting smile | C |
| Ere gray evening's sullen eye | D |
| Bids those tints of beauty die | D |
| Ere her tears have washed away | E |
| The footsteps of departing day | E |
| Nature from her verdant bowers | F |
| Her last long strain of rapture pours | G |
| Shrouded in her misty vest | H |
| She sings a drowsy world to rest | H |
| And tells to man in thrilling strains | I |
| That the Lord Jehovah reigns | I |
| - | |
| Lingering twilight dies away | E |
| Night resumes her ancient sway | E |
| Round her sable tresses twining | J |
| Countless hosts of stars are shining | J |
| Weaving round the brow of night | A |
| A coronet of living light | A |
| O'er the couch of nature bending | J |
| Their beauteous glances downward sending | J |
| A silent watch of glory keeping | J |
| Guard the earth whilst life is sleeping | J |
| Strains unheard by mortal ears | K |
| Echo through the starry spheres | K |
| Other worlds awake to sing | J |
| Glory to the eternal King | J |
| Till azure fields and liquid plains | I |
| Echo far Jehovah reigns | I |
| - | |
| Creation sleeps but many a sound | L |
| Of melody is floating round | L |
| Where the moon lit sea is flinging | J |
| Its snowy foam and upward springing | J |
| To meet the shore advancing nigh | D |
| Pours in many a broken sigh | D |
| A mournful dirge o'er those who rest | H |
| Forgotten in its stormy breast | H |
| Restless ocean onward rave | M |
| He who trod the boisterous wave | M |
| Shall to life those forms restore | N |
| Thy tides have rolled for ages o'er | O |
| Those sleepers from thy depths shall spring | J |
| To meet in air their mighty King | J |
| Whilst shrinking seas repeat their strains | I |
| Lord of all Jehovah reigns | I |
| - | |
| This is night her mantle gray | E |
| She flings across the brow of day | E |
| To hide from mortal ken awhile | C |
| The splendour of his kingly smile | C |
| But what magic beauties lie | D |
| In her dark and shadowy eye | D |
| When the moon with glory crowned | L |
| Checkers o'er the distant ground | L |
| Bathing now in floods of light | A |
| Now retreating from the sight | A |
| As the heavy vapoury cloud | P |
| Flings athwart its sable shroud | P |
| Onward as her course is steering | J |
| Now through broken cliffs appearing | J |
| She shows the brightness of her form | Q |
| And laughs exulting at the storm | Q |
| Whilst misty hills and moon lit plains | I |
| Echo far Jehovah reigns | I |
| - | |
| Night thy end is hastening fast | R |
| Eternal day will dawn at last | R |
| The Sun of righteousness shall rise | S |
| Triumphant through his native skies | S |
| And men redeemed from dust shall spring | J |
| To hail the advent of their King | J |
| Till heaven's wide arch repeats their strains | I |
| Christ our own Immanuel reigns | I |
Susanna Moodie
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