The Night Ride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NGNG CMCM OPOP QGQG RDRD| The red sun on the lonely lands | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Gazed under clouds of rose | B |
| As one who under knitted hands | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Takes one last look and goes | B |
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| Then Pain with her white sister Fear | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Crept nearer to my bed | D |
| The sands are running dost thou hear | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Thy sobbing heart she said | D |
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| There came a rider to the gate | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And stern and clear spake he | G |
| For meat or drink thou must not wait | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But rise and ride with me | G |
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| I waited not for meat or drink | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or kiss or farewell kind | I |
| But oh my heart was sore to think | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of friends I left behind | I |
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| We rode o'er hills that seemed to sweep | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Skyward like swelling waves | K |
| The living stirred not in their sleep | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The dead slept in their graves | K |
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| And ever as we rode I heard | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp A moan of anguish sore | M |
| No voice of man or beast or bird | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But all of these and more | M |
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| Is it the moaning of the Earth | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Dark Rider answer me | G |
| It is the cry of life at birth | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp He answered quietly | G |
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| But thou canst turn a face of cheer | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To good days still in store | M |
| Thou needst not care for Pain or Fear | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp They cannot harm thee more | M |
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| Yet I rode on with sullen heart | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And said with breaking breath | P |
| If thou art he I think thou art | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Then slay me now O Death | P |
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| The veil was from my eyesight drawn | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Thou knowest now said he | G |
| I am the Angel of the Dawn | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Ride back and wait for me | G |
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| So I rode back at morning light | R |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And there beside my bed | D |
| Fear had become a lily white | R |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And Pain a rose of red | D |
Victor James Daley
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