Shut Out That Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFEF HIJKLK MNMNMN| Close up the casement draw the blind | A |
| Shut out that stealing moon | B |
| She wears too much the guise she wore | C |
| Before our lutes were strewn | B |
| With years deep dust and names we read | D |
| On a white stone were hewn | B |
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| Step not out on the dew dashed lawn | E |
| To view the Lady's Chair | F |
| Immense Orion's glittering form | G |
| The Less and Greater Bear | F |
| Stay in to such sights we were drawn | E |
| When faded ones were fair | F |
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| Brush not the bough for midnight scents | H |
| That come forth lingeringly | I |
| And wake the same sweet sentiments | J |
| They breathed to you and me | K |
| When living seemed a laugh and love | L |
| All it was said to be | K |
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| Within the common lamp lit room | M |
| Prison my eyes and thought | N |
| Let dingy details crudely loom | M |
| Mechanic speech be wrought | N |
| Too fragrant was Life's early bloom | M |
| Too tart the fruit it brought | N |
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Thomas Hardy
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