Ode To The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBBCCEFFE A GHHGIGIJKJJK A LMMLLNNONPOPP CACAFQRQFSRRS TUVWXWYXUY A Z Z Z ZZZZ A AVAVVA2ZB2ZA2B2I | A |
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Mother of light how fairly dost thou go | B |
Over those hoary crests divinely led | C |
Art thou that huntress of the silver bow | D |
Fabled of old Or rather dost thou tread | C |
Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below | B |
Like the wild Chamois from her Alpine snow | B |
Where hunter never climb'd secure from dread | C |
How many antique fancies have I read | C |
Of that mild presence and how many wrought | E |
Wondrous and bright | F |
Upon the silver light | F |
Chasing fair figures with the artist Thought | E |
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II | A |
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What art thou like Sometimes I see thee ride | G |
A far bound galley on its perilous way | H |
Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray | H |
Sometimes behold thee glide | G |
Cluster'd by all thy family of stars | I |
Like a lone widow through the welkin wide | G |
Whose pallid cheek the midnight sorrow mars | I |
Sometimes I watch thee on from steep to steep | J |
Timidly lighted by thy vestal torch | K |
Till in some Latmian cave I see thee creep | J |
To catch the young Endymion asleep | J |
Leaving thy splendor at the jagged porch | K |
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III | A |
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Oh thou art beautiful howe'er it be | L |
Huntress or Dian or whatever named | M |
And he the veriest Pagan that first framed | M |
A silver idol and ne'er worshipp'd thee | L |
It is too late or thou should'st have my knee | L |
Too late now for the old Ephesian vows | N |
And not divine the crescent on thy brows | N |
Yet call thee nothing but the mere mild Moon | O |
Behind those chestnut boughs | N |
Casting their dappled shadows at my feet | P |
I will be grateful for that simple boon | O |
In many a thoughtful verse and anthem sweet | P |
And bless thy dainty face when'er we meet | P |
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IV | - |
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In nights far gone ay far away and dead | C |
Before Care fretted with a lidless eye | A |
I was thy wooer on my little bed | C |
Letting the early hours of rest go by | A |
To see thee flood the heaven with milky light | F |
And feed thy snow white swans before I slept | Q |
For thou wert then purveyor of my dreams | R |
Thou wert the fairies' armourer that kept | Q |
Their burnish'd helms and crowns and corslets bright | F |
Their spears and glittering mails | S |
And ever thou didst spill in winding streams | R |
Sparkles and midnight gleams | R |
For fishes to new gloss their ardent scales | S |
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V | - |
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Why sighs why creeping tears why clasped hands | T |
Is it to count the boy's expended dow'r | U |
That fairies since have broke their gifted wands | V |
That young Delight like any o'erblown flower | W |
Gave one by one its sweet leaves to the ground | X |
Why then fair Moon for all thou mark'st no hour | W |
Thou art a sadder dial to old Time | Y |
Than ever I have found | X |
On sunny garden plot or moss grown tow'r | U |
Motto'd with stern and melancholy rhyme | Y |
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VI | A |
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Why should I grieve for this Oh I must yearn | Z |
Whilst Time conspirator with Memory | - |
Keeps his cold ashes in an ancient urn | Z |
Richly emboss'd with childhood's revelry | - |
With leaves and cluster'd fruits and flow'rs eterne | Z |
Eternal to the world though not to me | - |
Aye there will those brave sports and blossoms be | - |
The deathless wreath and undecay'd festoon | Z |
When I am hearsed within | Z |
Less than the pallid primrose to the Moon | Z |
That now she watches through a vapor thin | Z |
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VII | A |
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So let it be Before I lived to sigh | A |
Thou wert in Avon and a thousand rills | V |
Beautiful Orb and so whene'er I lie | A |
Trodden thou wilt be gazing from thy hills | V |
Blest be thy loving light where'er it spills | V |
And bless d thy fair face O Mother mild | A2 |
Still shine the soul of rivers as they run | Z |
Still lend thy lonely lamp to lovers fond | B2 |
And blend their plighted shadows into one | Z |
Still smile at even on the bedded child | A2 |
And close his eyelids with thy silver wand | B2 |
Thomas Hood
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