The Evening Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGG AHHIIJJEEKKLLHH AEEMMHHNNEEBBEE EEOOEE| I | A |
| Angels their silvery trumpets blow | B |
| At dawn to greet the Morning Glow | B |
| And mortals lift adoring eyes | C |
| To see the glorious sun arise | C |
| Then winged by Faith and spurred by Hope | D |
| Youth scans the hill youth scales the slope | D |
| Its pulses bound its thoughts exult | E |
| It finds no danger difficult | E |
| Quickens its pace disdaining ease | F |
| Victor before it comes and sees | F |
| Feeling the Universe its own | G |
| The Sovereign of a Self made Throne | G |
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| II | A |
| Each hope fulfilled obtained each prayer | H |
| We glory in the Noonday Glare | H |
| Welcome the blinding heat of strife | I |
| Deeming resistance part of life | I |
| We deal the blow return the stroke | J |
| Fighting our way through dust and smoke | J |
| Until our battle banner furled | E |
| We tower above a conquered World | E |
| Whether one leads mankind along | K |
| By gift of speech or grace of song | K |
| Seizes by forceful hand the helm | L |
| Or adds an Empire to the Realm | L |
| Confronts the sun with forehead bare | H |
| Exulting in the Noonday Glare | H |
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| III | A |
| But as the lengthening shadows glide | E |
| Silent towards the eventide | E |
| And dew baptizes leaf and flower | M |
| In twilight's sanctuary hour | M |
| A sacred Something haunts the air | H |
| Tender as love devout as prayer | H |
| And in the lofty dome afar | N |
| Glimmers one bright outriding star | N |
| Announcing to the watchful sight | E |
| Coming battalions of the Night | E |
| Then Noonday Glare and Morning Glow | B |
| Fade into shadowy Long ago | B |
| One feels Earth's vain ambitions fade | E |
| Into the vanished dust they made | E |
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| All that the glow of dawn foretold | E |
| And all the glare of noon unrolled | E |
| Seem nothing to the quiet joy | O |
| No clamour mars no cares destroy | O |
| 'Twixt restless day and restful night | E |
| That cometh with the Evening Light | E |
Alfred Austin
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