Prefatory Poem To My Brother's Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB CDCD E E FGFH IJIJ KLKL MNMN| Midnight June | A |
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| Midnight in no midsummer tune | A |
| The breakers lash the shores | B |
| The cuckoo of a joyless June | A |
| Is calling out of doors | B |
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| And thou hast vanish'd from thine own | C |
| To that which looks like rest | D |
| True brother only to be known | C |
| By those who love thee best | D |
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| II | - |
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| Midnight and joyless June gone by | - |
| And from the deluged park | E |
| The cuckoo of a worse July | - |
| Is calling thro' the dark | E |
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| But thou art silent underground | F |
| And o'er thee streams the rain | G |
| True poet surely to be found | F |
| When Truth is found again | H |
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| III | - |
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| And now in these unsummer'd skies | I |
| The summer bird is still | J |
| Far off a phantom cuckoo cries | I |
| From out a phantom hill | J |
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| And thro' this midnight breaks the sun | K |
| Of sixty years away | L |
| The light of days when life begun | K |
| The days that seem to day | L |
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| When all my griefs were shared with thee | M |
| As all my hopes were thine | N |
| As all thou wert was one with me | M |
| May all thou art be mine | N |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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