The Night Dance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFEF FFFFGGDHIHI| Strike the gay harp see the moon is on high | A |
| And as true to her beam as the tides of the ocean | B |
| Young hearts when they feel the soft light of her eye | A |
| Obey the mute call and heave into motion | B |
| Then sound notes the gayest the lightest | C |
| That ever took wing when heaven look'd brightest | C |
| Again Again | D |
| Oh could such heart stirring music be heard | E |
| In that City of Statues described by romancers | F |
| So wakening its spell even stone would be stirr'd | E |
| And statues themselves all start into dancers | F |
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| Why then delay with such sounds in our ears | F |
| And the flower of Beauty's own garden before us | F |
| While stars overhead leave the song of their spheres | F |
| And listening to ours hang wondering o'er us | F |
| Again that strain to hear it thus sounding | G |
| Might set even Death's cold pulses bounding | G |
| Again Again | D |
| Oh what delight when the youthful and gay | H |
| Each with eye like a sunbeam and foot like a feather | I |
| Thus dance like the Hours to the music of May | H |
| And mingle sweet song and sunshine together | I |
Thomas Moore
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