In The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACBDADC EFGEGFHEHG GIJGJKLGLJ MNOMONHMHO PQRSTQUPUV WXYWYXCWCA ZA2B2ZB2A2CZC| Where art thou thou lost face | A |
| Which yet a little while wert making mirth | B |
| At these new years which seemed too sad to be | C |
| Where art thou fled which for a minute's space | A |
| Shut out the world and wert my world to me | C |
| And now a corner of this idle Earth | B |
| A broken shadow by the day forgot | D |
| Is wide enough to be thy hiding place | A |
| And thou art shrunk away and needest not | D |
| The darkness of this night to cover thee | C |
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| Where art thou hidden In the boundless air | E |
| My hands go forth to thee and search and feel | F |
| As through the universe I hold the night | G |
| Caught in my arms and yet thou art not there | E |
| Where art thou What if I should strike a light | G |
| So suddenly that thou couldst never steal | F |
| Back to thy shadows What if I should find | H |
| Thee standing close to me with all thy hair | E |
| Trailing about me and thine eyes grown blind | H |
| With looking at me vainly through the night | G |
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| There are three rings upon thy hand to night | G |
| One with a sapphire stone and one there is | I |
| Coiled like a snake and one on which my name | J |
| Is written in strange gems By this dim light | G |
| I cannot read if it be writ the same | J |
| See I have worn no other ring but this | K |
| Why dost thou look at it with eyes estranged | L |
| Is it not thine Ah God Thou readest right | G |
| And it is changed and thou and I are changed | L |
| And I have written there another name | J |
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| Oh happiness how has it slipped away | M |
| We who once lived and held it in our hand | N |
| What is the rest that these new years can bring | O |
| Did we not love it in our love's to day | M |
| And pleasure which was so divine a thing | O |
| The sweetest and most strange to understand | N |
| And that is why it left regret behind | H |
| As though a wild bird suddenly should stay | M |
| A moment at our side and we should find | H |
| When we looked up that it had taken wing | O |
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| And thou hast thou forgotten how to love | P |
| Hast thou no kissing in thy lips Thy tongue | Q |
| Has it no secret whisper for my ear | R |
| I have been watching thee to see thee move | S |
| A little closer to my side in fear | T |
| Of the long night Oh there is room among | Q |
| The pillows for thy head if thou wouldst sleep | U |
| And thou art cold and I would wrap my love | P |
| To my warm breast and so my vigil keep | U |
| And be alone with darkness and with her | V |
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| Thou standest with thy hand upon my heart | W |
| As once thou used to stand to feel it beat | X |
| Doth it beat calmer now than in those days | Y |
| Thy foolish finger tips will leave a smart | W |
| If they so press upon my side Thy gaze | Y |
| Is burning me Oh speak a word and cheat | X |
| This darkness into pain if pain must be | C |
| And wake me back to sorrow with a start | W |
| For I am weary of the night and thee | C |
| And thy strange silence and thy stranger face | A |
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| Canst thou not speak Thy tale was but begun | Z |
| How can I answer thee a tale untold | A2 |
| Whisper it quick before the morning break | B2 |
| How loud thou weepest Listen there is one | Z |
| Dreaming beside me who must not awake | B2 |
| Close in my ear Ah child thy lips are cold | A2 |
| Because thou art forsaken Misery | C |
| Is there not room enough beneath the sun | Z |
| For her and thee and me | C |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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