Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFGHHIIJJKKLM NNOODD N| Now great Hyperion left his golden throne | A |
| That on the dancing waves in glory shone | A |
| For whose declining on the western shore | B |
| The oriental hills black mantles wore | B |
| And thence apace the gentle twilight fled | C |
| That had from hideous caverns ushered | D |
| All drowsy Night who in a car of jet | E |
| By steeds of iron grey which mainly sweat | E |
| Moist drops on all the world drawn through the sky | F |
| The helps of darkness waited orderly | G |
| First thick clouds rose from all the liquid plains | H |
| Then mists from marishes and grounds whose veins | H |
| Were conduit pipes to many a crystal spring | I |
| From standing pools and fens were following | I |
| Unhealthy fogs each river every rill | J |
| Sent up their vapours to attend her will | J |
| These pitchy curtains drew 'twixt earth and heaven | K |
| And as Night's chariot through the air was driven | K |
| Clamour grew dumb unheard was shepherd's song | L |
| And silence girt the woods no warbling tongue | M |
| Talk'd to the Echo satyrs broke their dance | N |
| And all the upper world lay in a trance | N |
| Only the curled streams soft chidings kept | O |
| And little gales that from the green leaf swept | O |
| Dry summer's dust in fearful whisp'rings stirred | D |
| As loath to waken any singing bird | D |
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| From Britannia's Pastorals | N |
William Browne
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