The New Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIJ KKLMML CCNOON PPAQQA| When as the garish day is done | A |
| Heaven burns with the descended sun | A |
| 'Tis passing sweet to mark | B |
| Amid that flush of crimson light | C |
| The new moon's modest bow grow bright | C |
| As earth and sky grow dark | B |
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| Few are the hearts too cold to feel | D |
| A thrill of gladness o'er them steal | D |
| When first the wandering eye | E |
| Sees faintly in the evening blaze | F |
| That glimmering curve of tender rays | F |
| Just planted in the sky | E |
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| The sight of that young crescent brings | G |
| Thoughts of all fair and youthful things | G |
| The hopes of early years | H |
| And childhood's purity and grace | I |
| And joys that like a rainbow chase | I |
| The passing shower of tears | J |
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| The captive yields him to the dream | K |
| Of freedom when that virgin beam | K |
| Comes out upon the air | L |
| And painfully the sick man tries | M |
| To fix his dim and burning eyes | M |
| On the soft promise there | L |
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| Most welcome to the lover's sight | C |
| Glitters that pure emerging light | C |
| For prattling poets say | N |
| That sweetest is the lovers' walk | O |
| And tenderest is their murmured talk | O |
| Beneath its gentle ray | N |
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| And there do graver men behold | P |
| A type of errors loved of old | P |
| Forsaken and forgiven | A |
| And thoughts and wishes not of earth | Q |
| Just opening in their early birth | Q |
| Like that new light in heaven | A |
William Cullen Bryant
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