When The Firmament Quivers With Daylight's Young Beam. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK| When the firmament quivers with daylight's young beam | A |
| And the woodlands awaking burst into a hymn | B |
| And the glow of the sky blazes back from the stream | A |
| How the bright ones of heaven in the brightness grow dim | B |
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| Oh 'tis sad in that moment of glory and song | C |
| To see while the hill tops are waiting the sun | D |
| The glittering band that kept watch all night long | C |
| O'er Love and o'er Slumber go out one by one | D |
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| Till the circle of ether deep ruddy and vast | E |
| Scarce glimmers with one of the train that were there | F |
| And their leader the day star the brightest and last | E |
| Twinkles faintly and fades in that desert of air | F |
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| Thus Oblivion from midst of whose shadow we came | G |
| Steals o'er us again when life's twilight is gone | H |
| And the crowd of bright names in the heaven of fame | G |
| Grow pale and are quenched as the years hasten on | I |
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| Let them fade but we'll pray that the age in whose flight | J |
| Of ourselves and our friends the remembrance shall die | K |
| May rise o'er the world with the gladness and light | J |
| Of the morning that withers the stars from the sky | K |
William Cullen Bryant
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