Watching Unto God In The Night Season Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF BGBG HIHI JKJK LMLM NOPO KQKQ| Sleep at last has fled these eyes | A |
| Nor do I regret his flight | B |
| More alert my spirits rise | A |
| And my heart is free and light | B |
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| Nature silent all around | C |
| Not a single witness near | D |
| God as soon as sought is found | C |
| And the flame of love burns clear | D |
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| Interruption all day long | E |
| Checks the current of my joys | F |
| Creatures press me with a throng | E |
| And perplex me with their noise | F |
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| Undisturbed I muse all night | B |
| On the first Eternal Fair | G |
| Nothing there obstructs delight | B |
| Love is renovated there | G |
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| Life with its perpetual stir | H |
| Proves a foe to love and me | I |
| Fresh entanglements occur | H |
| Comes the night and sets me free | I |
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| Never more sweet sleep suspend | J |
| My enjoyments always new | K |
| Leave me to possess my friend | J |
| Other eyes and hearts subdue | K |
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| Hush the world that I may wake | L |
| To the taste of pure delights | M |
| Oh the pleasures I partake | L |
| God the partner of my nights | M |
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| David for the selfsame cause | N |
| Night preferred to busy day | O |
| Hearts whom heavenly beauty draws | P |
| Wish the glaring sun away | O |
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| Sleep self lovers is for you | K |
| Souls that love celestial know | Q |
| Fairer scenes by night can view | K |
| Than the sun could ever show | Q |
William Cowper
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