A Shadow Of The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UUVWXYZA2B2C2UD2E2F2| Close on the edge of a midsummer dawn | A |
| In troubled dreams I went from land to land | B |
| Each seven colored like the rainbow's arc | C |
| Regions where never fancy's foot had trod | D |
| Till then yet all the strangeness seemed not strange | E |
| At which I wondered reasoning in my dream | F |
| With twofold sense well knowing that I slept | G |
| At last I came to this our cloud hung earth | H |
| And somewhere by the seashore was a grave | I |
| A woman's grave new made and heaped with flowers | J |
| And near it stood an ancient holy man | K |
| That fain would comfort me who sorrowed not | L |
| For this unknown dead woman at my feet | M |
| But I because his sacred office held | N |
| My reverence listened and 'twas thus he spake | O |
| 'When next thou comest thou shalt find her still | P |
| In all the rare perfection that she was | Q |
| Thou shalt have gentle greeting of thy love | R |
| Her eyelids will have turned to violets | S |
| Her bosom to white lilies and her breath | T |
| To roses What is lovely never dies | U |
| But passes into other loveliness | U |
| Star dust or sea foam flower or winged air | V |
| If this befalls our poor unworthy flesh | W |
| Think thee what destiny awaits the soul | X |
| What glorious vesture it shall wear at last ' | Y |
| While yet he spoke seashore and grave and priest | Z |
| Vanished and faintly from a neighboring spire | A2 |
| Fell five slow solemn strokes upon my ear | B2 |
| Then I awoke with a keen pain at heart | C2 |
| A sense of swift unutterable loss | U |
| And through the darkness reached my hand to touch | D2 |
| Her cheek soft pillowed on one restful palm | E2 |
| To be quite sure | F2 |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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