The Waning Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL GMGM NONO PQRQ GSGS| I've watched too late the morn is near | A |
| One look at God's broad silent sky | B |
| Oh hopes and wishes vainly dear | A |
| How in your very strength ye die | B |
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| Even while your glow is on the cheek | C |
| And scarce the high pursuit begun | D |
| The heart grows faint the hand grows weak | C |
| The task of life is left undone | D |
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| See where upon the horizon's brim | E |
| Lies the still cloud in gloomy bars | F |
| The waning moon all pale and dim | E |
| Goes up amid the eternal stars | F |
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| Late in a flood of tender light | G |
| She floated through the ethereal blue | H |
| A softer sun that shone all night | G |
| Upon the gathering beads of dew | H |
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| And still thou wanest pallid moon | I |
| The encroaching shadow grows apace | J |
| Heaven's everlasting watchers soon | I |
| Shall see thee blotted from thy place | J |
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| Oh Night's dethroned and crownless queen | K |
| Well may thy sad expiring ray | L |
| Be shed on those whose eyes have seen | K |
| Hope's glorious visions fade away | L |
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| Shine thou for forms that once were bright | G |
| For sages in the mind's eclipse | M |
| For those whose words were spells of might | G |
| But falter now on stammering lips | M |
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| In thy decaying beam there lies | N |
| Full many a grave on hill and plain | O |
| Of those who closed their dying eyes | N |
| In grief that they had lived in vain | O |
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| Another night and thou among | P |
| The spheres of heaven shalt cease to shine | Q |
| All rayless in the glittering throng | R |
| Whose lustre late was quenched in thine | Q |
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| Yet soon a new and tender light | G |
| From out thy darkened orb shall beam | S |
| And broaden till it shines all night | G |
| On glistening dew and glimmering stream | S |
William Cullen Bryant
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