A Night-storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEBFFGGHHII JGKKLLMNOPQQDRSMTTUU VVWWXX YZIIA2A2A2B2B2C2MWWD 2D2E2E2 F2F2G2H2I2I2 J2J2HHLet this rough fragment lend its mossy seat | A |
Let Contemplation hail this lone retreat | A |
Come meek eyed goddess through the midnight gloom | B |
Born of the silent awe which robes the tomb | B |
This gothic front this antiquated pile | C |
The bleak wind howling through each mazy aisle | C |
Its high gray towers faint peeping through the shade | D |
Shall hail thy presence consecrated maid | D |
Whether beneath some vaulted abbey's dome | E |
Where ev'ry footstep sounds in every tomb | B |
Where Superstition from the marble stone | F |
Gives every sound a pilgrim spirit's groan | F |
Pensive thou readest by the moon's full glare | G |
The sculptured children of Affection's tear | G |
Or in the church yard lone thou sitt'st to weep | H |
O'er some sad wreck beneath the tufty heap | H |
Perchance some victim to Seduction's spell | I |
Who yielded wept and then neglected fell | I |
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But hither come on yon swoln arch to gaze | J |
And view the vivid flash eruptive blare | G |
Light those high walls with transitory gleam | K |
Illume the air and sparkle in the stream | K |
Ah look where yonder tempest shaken cloud | L |
Awful and black as the chaosian shroud | L |
Breaks like the waves which lash the sandy shore | M |
And speaks its mission in a feeble row | N |
Thus Meditation hears Aspiring height | O |
Of old the splendid mansions of the great | P |
Thy fate tremendous lours upon the blast | Q |
And waits to write on thy remains 'tis past | Q |
Oft have the genii of the hoary blade | D |
Around thy walls their hell born demons led | R |
Yet hast thou triumph'd o'er each monster's car | S |
And braved the ills of pestilential war | M |
Oft hast thou seen the circling seasons roll | T |
In fond succession round thy native pole | T |
Defied the hoary matron of the ring | U |
And seen her sicken in the lap of Spring | U |
But ah no more thy time clad head shall rise | V |
To dare the tempest while it shakes the skies | V |
Nor one small wreck invade the fair concave | W |
Nor shout above its crumbling basis Save | W |
When rising zephyr from thy ruin brings | X |
A world of atoms on its fairy wings | X |
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Din horrible as though the rebel train | Y |
Had sprung from chaos fought and fall'n again | Z |
Raves the high bolt how yon old structure fell | I |
How every cranny trembled with the yell | I |
Of frighted owls whose secret haunts forlorn | A2 |
Were from their kindred vaults and windings torn | A2 |
Of bold Antiquity's rough pencil born | A2 |
Thrice Fancy leads the dismal echo round | B2 |
And paints the spectre gliding o'er the ground | B2 |
From ev'ry turret ev'ry vanquish'd tower | C2 |
In heaps confused the broken fragments pour | M |
And as they plunge toward the pebbly grave | W |
Like wizard wand draw circles in the wave | W |
Meand'ring stream thy liquid jaws extend | D2 |
Anoint with Lethe now thy fallen friend | D2 |
Again the heralds of the thunder fly | E2 |
In forky squadrons from the trembling sky | E2 |
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Again the thunder its harsh menace swells | F2 |
And light wing'd echoes hail the humbled cells | F2 |
Weep weep ye clouds with heav'n bespangled tears | G2 |
And ah if pity rules your sacred spheres | H2 |
Invoke the thunder to withstay its rage | I2 |
Disarm its fury and its wrath assuage | I2 |
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But now Aurora from the Ocean's verge | J2 |
Trims her gray lamp to light the mournful dirge | J2 |
She comes to light the ruinated heap | H |
But lights to wake the pensive soul to weep | H |
Thomas Gent
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