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On An Eclipse Of The Moon At Midnight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEDEFGFGHIIHEJEJ KLMNOPPM

Up up into the vast extended spaceA
Thou art ascending in thy majestyB
Beautiful moon the queen of the pale skyC
But what is that which gathers on thy faceA
A dark mysterious shade eclipsing slowD
The splendour of thy calm and steadfast lightE
It is the shadow of this world of woeD
Of this vast moving world portentous sightE
As if we almost stood and saw more nearF
Its very action almost heard it rollG
On in the swiftness of its dread careerF
As it hath rolled for ages Hush my soulG
Listen there is no sound but we could hearH
The murmur of its multitudes who toilI
Through their brief hour The heart might well recoilI
But this is ever sounding in His earH
Who made it and who said Let there be lightE
And we the creatures of a mortal hourJ
'Mid hosts of worlds are ever in his sightE
Catching as now dim glimpses of his powerJ
The time shall come when all this mighty sceneK
Darkness shall wrap as it had never beenL
O Father of all worlds be thou our guideM
And lead us gently on from youth to ageN
Through the dark valley of our pilgrimageO
Enough if thus bending to thy high willP
We hold our Christian course through good or illP
And to the end with faith and hope abideM

William Lisle Bowles



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