Night After The Picnic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDC ABBBEDFD GCACHIAI DJFJAKFK ADFDADLD AMGMNBAB OPDPQDHD AFFRPGAG ACACADAD ASTSOSAS AAFAFGFG BOFOABAB FBABOOAO POAODOAO AOGOOO ADDD| And Happy Happy Happy | A |
| Rang the bells of all the hours | B |
| Shyly Shyly Shyly | A |
| Looked and listened all the flowers | B |
| They were wakened from their slumbers | B |
| By the footsteps of the fair | C |
| And they smiled in their awaking | D |
| On the faces gathered there | C |
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| Brightly Brightly Brightly | A |
| Looked the overhanging trees | B |
| For beneath their bending branches | B |
| Floated tresses in the breeze | B |
| And they wondered who had wandered | E |
| With such voices and so gay | D |
| And their leaflets seemed to whisper | F |
| To each other Who are they | D |
| - | |
| They were just like little children | G |
| Not a sorrow's shade was there | C |
| And Merry Merry Merry | A |
| Rang their laughter thro' the air | C |
| There was not a brow grief darkened | H |
| Was there there a heart in pain | I |
| But Happy Happy Happy | A |
| Came the happy bells' refrain | I |
| - | |
| When the stately trees were bending | D |
| O'er a simple quiet home | J |
| That looked humble as an altar | F |
| Nestling 'neath a lofty dome | J |
| Thither went they gaily gaily | A |
| Where their coming was a joy | K |
| Just to pass away together | F |
| One long day without alloy | K |
| - | |
| Slowly Slowly Slowly | A |
| Melted morning's mist away | D |
| Till the sun in all its splendor | F |
| Lit the borders of the bay | D |
| Gladly Gladly Gladly | A |
| Glanced the waters that were gray | D |
| While the wavelets whispered Welcome | L |
| To us all that happy day | D |
| - | |
| And Happy Happy Happy | A |
| Rang the bell in every heart | M |
| And it chimed All day let no one | G |
| Think that ye shall ever part | M |
| Go and sip from every moment | N |
| Sweets to perfume many years | B |
| Keep your feast and be too happy | A |
| To have thought of any tears | B |
| - | |
| There was song with one's soul in it | O |
| And the happy hearts grew still | P |
| While they leaned upon the music | D |
| Like fair lilies o'er the rill | P |
| Till the notes had softly floated | Q |
| Into silent seas away | D |
| O'er the wavelets where they listened | H |
| While they rocked upon the bay | D |
| - | |
| And Dreamy Dreamy Dreamy | A |
| When the song's sweet life was o'er | F |
| Drooped the eyes that will remember | F |
| All its echoes evermore | R |
| And Stilly Stilly Stilly | P |
| Beat the hearts of some I ween | G |
| That can see the unseen mystery | A |
| Which a song may strive to screen | G |
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| Then Gaily Gaily Gaily | A |
| Rang the laughter everywhere | C |
| From the lips that seemed too lightsome | A |
| For the sigh of any care | C |
| And the dance went Merry Merry | A |
| Whilst the feet that tripped along | D |
| Bore the hearts that were as happy | A |
| As a wild bird's happy song | D |
| - | |
| And sweet words with smiles upon them | A |
| Joy winged flitted to and fro | S |
| Flushing every face they met with | T |
| With the glory of their glow | S |
| Not a brow with cloud upon it | O |
| Not an eye that seemed to know | S |
| What a tear is not a bosom | A |
| That had ever nursed a woe | S |
| - | |
| And how Swiftly Swiftly Swiftly | A |
| Like the ripples of a stream | A |
| Did the bright hours chase each other | F |
| Till it all seemed like a dream | A |
| Till it seemed as if no Never | F |
| Ever in this world had been | G |
| To o'ercloud the brief Forever | F |
| Shining o'er the happy scene | G |
| - | |
| Dimly dimly fell the shadows | B |
| Of the tranquil eventide | O |
| But the sound of dance and laughter | F |
| Would not die and had not died | O |
| And still Happy Happy Happy | A |
| Rang the voiceless vesper bells | B |
| O'er the hearts that were too happy | A |
| To remember earth's farewells | B |
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| Came the night hours faster faster | F |
| Rose the laughter and the dance | B |
| And the eyes that should look weary | A |
| Shone the brighter in their glance | B |
| And they stole from every minute | O |
| What no other day could lend | O |
| They were happy happy happy | A |
| But the feast must have an end | O |
| - | |
| Children come the words were cruel | P |
| 'Twas the death sigh of the feast | O |
| And they came still merry merry | A |
| At the bidding of the priest | O |
| Who had heard the joy bells ringing | D |
| Round him all the summer day | O |
| Happy Happy Happy Happy | A |
| Did he hear an angel say | O |
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| Happy happy still more happy | A |
| Yea the happiest are they | O |
| I was moving 'mid the children | G |
| By the borders of the bay | O |
| And I bring to God no record | O |
| Of a single sin this day | O |
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| Happy Happy Happy | A |
| When your life seems lone and long | D |
| You will hear that feast's bells ringing | D |
| Far and faintly thro' my song | D |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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