Why dove?

[LorettaYoung]

O why dove, why dove, sit alone in your vast fright? Sit lonely in fright,
While the blackness swells to swarm on this very night!
while blackness swells to swarm this very night
Fly dove, fly dove, give the world your shimmering light! I assume shimmering light represents the image of the dove as a symbol of love and peace?
With feathers of white, oh how they glisten so bright! Do they glisten by sun light?
Please dove, please dove, start before it grips tight!
Pulling us down, with the untold darkest of might!
I cry dove, cry dove, will you not hear my plight?
Your great radiance beside, we could put up a fight!This sounds forced into rhyme
Rise dove, rise dove, the world you shall incite! This is an inversion for you shall incite the world; but you are disregarding structure to ensure rhyme.
Your illumination beaming, the black will ignite!I think you are saying that the Dove, its peace and love will set the world on fire? But you phrase it with a forced rhyme.
Please dove, please dove, smother the darkest blight!
Raise up and take flight, as a gleaming white knight! "as" not necessary "take flight, a gleaming white knight?
So why dove? Why dove? Why sit alone... in vast fright?

I'm sorry, I think I posted in the wrong place, my mistake; I think you are talking about light being victorious over the dark. But you are loosing the way to make yourself clear by finding wrong words to go with rhymes, some with questionable value to the line themselves and are sacrificing words and structure. I know you have an idea here; but it is truly renderered unclear. And I agree with the other critiques. Word like shimmering are attractive in themselves; if they are in contact with surrounding though and idea why the are shimmering. I think you should work on this, truly, some reading poetry and study WILL help I think.  Good luck, Loretta

I apologize for my posting in the wrong place.

Hello and welcome SS. You have sacrificed any hope of conveying meaning all for one rhyme. Why? Anyone can google "rhymes with fright" and write out 13 loosely related lines. My advice would be, as an exercise, rewrite each line saying what you MEAN, without regard for rhyme. You may or may not get something from that. Also, IMO exclamation marks are for facebook, they make for ugly graffiti in poetry, almost all of the time.
Thanks for the post and good luck!!!!!!
Paul