A Night-storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEBFFGGHHII JGKKLLMNOPQQDRSMTTUU VVWWXX YZIIA2A2A2B2B2C2MWWD 2D2E2E2 F2F2G2H2I2I2 J2J2HH| Let 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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