Hymn To The North Star. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM NONOPP QRQSAA TUTUFF| The sad and solemn night | A |
| Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires | B |
| The glorious host of light | A |
| Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires | C |
| All through her silent watches gliding slow | D |
| Her constellations come and climb the heavens and go | D |
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| Day too hath many a star | E |
| To grace his gorgeous reign as bright as they | F |
| Through the blue fields afar | E |
| Unseen they follow in his flaming way | F |
| Many a bright lingerer as the eve grows dim | G |
| Tells what a radiant troop arose and set with him | G |
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| And thou dost see them rise | H |
| Star of the Pole and thou dost see them set | I |
| Alone in thy cold skies | H |
| Thou keep'st thy old unmoving station yet | I |
| Nor join'st the dances of that glittering train | J |
| Nor dipp'st thy virgin orb in the blue western main | J |
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| There at morn's rosy birth | K |
| Thou lookest meekly through the kindling air | L |
| And eve that round the earth | K |
| Chases the day beholds thee watching there | L |
| There noontide finds thee and the hour that calls | M |
| The shapes of polar flame to scale heaven's azure walls | M |
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| Alike beneath thine eye | N |
| The deeds of darkness and of light are done | O |
| High towards the star lit sky | N |
| Towns blaze the smoke of battle blots the sun | O |
| The night storm on a thousand hills is loud | P |
| And the strong wind of day doth mingle sea and cloud | P |
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| On thy unaltering blaze | Q |
| The half wrecked mariner his compass lost | R |
| Fixes his steady gaze | Q |
| And steers undoubting to the friendly coast | S |
| And they who stray in perilous wastes by night | A |
| Are glad when thou dost shine to guide their footsteps right | A |
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| And therefore bards of old | T |
| Sages and hermits of the solemn wood | U |
| Did in thy beams behold | T |
| A beauteous type of that unchanging good | U |
| That bright eternal beacon by whose ray | F |
| The voyager of time should shape his heedful way | F |
William Cullen Bryant
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