The Night-blowing Cereus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEFGG| Can it be true so fragrant and so fair | A |
| To give thy perfumes to the dews of night | B |
| Can aught so beautiful despise the glare | A |
| And fade and sicken in the morning light | B |
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| Yes peerless flower the Heavens alone exhale | C |
| Thy fragrance while the glittering stars attest | D |
| And incense wafted by the midnight gale | C |
| Untainted rises from thy spotless breast | D |
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| How like that Faith whose nature is apart | E |
| From human gaze to love and work unseen | F |
| Which gives to God an undivided heart | E |
| In sorrow steadfast and in joy serene | F |
| That night flower of the soul whose fragrant power | G |
| Breathes on the darkness of the closing hour | G |
Thomas Gent
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