On The Beach At Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DECFBGH BIJ KELDMNOPQRSTQU BV WBUVSBAH| ON the beach at night | A |
| Stands a child with her father | B |
| Watching the east the autumn sky | C |
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| Up through the darkness | D |
| While ravening clouds the burial clouds in black masses spreading | E |
| Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky | C |
| Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east | F |
| Ascends large and calm the lord star Jupiter | B |
| And nigh at hand only a very little above | G |
| Swim the delicate brothers the Pleiades | H |
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| From the beach the child holding the hand of her father | B |
| Those burial clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all | I |
| Watching silently weeps | J |
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| Weep not child | K |
| Weep not my darling | E |
| With these kisses let me remove your tears | L |
| The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious | D |
| They shall not long possess the sky shall devour the stars only in | M |
| apparition | N |
| Jupiter shall emerge be patient watch again another night the | O |
| Pleiades shall emerge | P |
| They are immortal all those stars both silvery and golden shall | Q |
| shine out again | R |
| The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again they | S |
| endure | T |
| The vast immortal suns and the long enduring pensive moons shall | Q |
| again shine | U |
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| Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter | B |
| Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars | V |
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| Something there is | W |
| With my lips soothing thee adding I whisper | B |
| I give thee the first suggestion the problem and indirection | U |
| Something there is more immortal even than the stars | V |
| Many the burials many the days and nights passing away | S |
| Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter | B |
| Longer than sun or any revolving satellite | A |
| Or the radiant brothers the Pleiades | H |
Walt Whitman
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