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Elbereth
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Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!
O Queen beyond the Western Seas!
O Light to us that wander here
Amid the world of woven trees!
Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!
Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath!
Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee
In a far land beyond the Sea.
O stars in the Sunless Year
With shining hand by her were sown,
In windy fields now bright and clear
We see your silver blossom blown!
Oh Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees,
Thy starlight on the Western Seas
THis poem has four stanzas with four lines each. It has some sort of ryhme scheme abab in the first stanza aabb in the second stanza abab in the third stanza and aabb again in the fourth stanza so it does have a steady rhyming pattern.
I looked up the title of the poem on google and it is actually a hymnat the end of the chapter many meetings. In this chapter the hobbits are in the house of Eldrond and are leaving the hall of fire.
Tolkein himself says that it is only a poem fragment and that there is much more to the poem than what is shown. This is an elven song that is only one of many. This comes from the Lord of the Rings series.
Gilthoniel is the Sindarin surname for the Queen of Stars. Which makes sense because in the last stanza it says that the starlight shines on the Western seas so that is proof that Gilthoniel is in fact a star.
The Queen of stars leads her followers in the night and if that have to work at night also like it says in the first stanza.
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