The Morning Star. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADD EFFEGG HIIHJJ KLLKMM NOONPP NQQNAA| Night's heavy hand is lifted up at last | A |
| And my freed heart beats evenly again | B |
| Unpress'd by that dull heavy weight of pain | C |
| Cast backward from the unforgotten Past | A |
| Darkness no longer muffles Time's slow tread | D |
| Till my own pulse beat mark the moment fled | D |
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| Over the speeding shadows calm and clear | E |
| Rises the Star of Morn upon the Earth | F |
| Eternal Prophet of the Sun god's birth | F |
| Shining serenely from its silver sphere | E |
| Mute mystic meanings on the strengthen'd soul | G |
| Till all its night bred vapours backward roll | G |
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| Oh bright eyed Angel of the undimm'd Light | H |
| Standing upon Heaven's pinnacle thy glance | I |
| Pierces like two edged sword through many a trance | I |
| Dividing Truth from Dreaming in its might | H |
| Scourging Doubt's myriads from Day's temple gate | J |
| Leaving Life's worship pure its heart elate | J |
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| No herald thou of Night like Hesper fair | K |
| Pale with the dreaded Future's shapeless gloom | L |
| Leading the spirit to an unknown doom | L |
| Through clouds and darkness heavy fraught with care | K |
| Hesper the beautiful alone our guide | M |
| Beset by blinding fears on every side | M |
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| Groping through Night's dim chambers wearily | N |
| Longing to leave its cold sepulchral aisles | O |
| Comest thou with thy calm assuring smiles | O |
| Like Nemesis to lead us tenderly | N |
| Through all the dangers of the murky way | P |
| Unto the golden portals of the Day | P |
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| Yea Night and Death shall pass away and we | N |
| By resurrection sweet arise new born | Q |
| Like thee in glory bright one Sons of Morn | Q |
| Without a shade on our felicity | N |
| Eyeing the fleeting vapours of the Past | A |
| As thou dost now Night's mists dissolving fast | A |
Walter R. Cassels
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