The Dawn Is Breaking O'er Us Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDABAB EFEFGGHHABAB EIEIJJKKLFLF| The dawn is breaking o'er us | A |
| See heaven hath caught its hue | B |
| We've day's long light before us | A |
| What sport shall we pursue | B |
| The hunt o'er hill and lea | C |
| The sail o'er summer sea | C |
| Oh let not hour so sweet | D |
| Unwinged by pleasure fleet | D |
| The dawn is breaking o'er us | A |
| See heaven hath caught its hue | B |
| We've days long light before us | A |
| What sport shall we pursue | B |
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| But see while we're deciding | E |
| What morning sport to play | F |
| The dial's hand is gliding | E |
| And morn hath past away | F |
| Ah who'd have thought that noon | G |
| Would o'er us steal so soon | G |
| That morn's sweet hour of prime | H |
| Would last so short a time | H |
| But come we've day before us | A |
| Still heaven looks bright and blue | B |
| Quick quick ere eve comes o'er us | A |
| What sport shall we pursue | B |
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| Alas why thus delaying | E |
| We're now at evening's hour | I |
| Its farewell beam is playing | E |
| O'er hill and wave and bower | I |
| That light we thought would last | J |
| Behold even now 'tis past | J |
| And all our morning dreams | K |
| Have vanisht with its beams | K |
| But come 'twere vain to borrow | L |
| Sad lessons from this lay | F |
| For man will be to morrow | L |
| Just what he's been to day | F |
Thomas Moore
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