Barking Hall: A Year After Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCBDDEEFGGGFHIJJ KLLLKMMNKOPPPQLLRRST UTVWWKKXYYYXZZ| Still the sovereign trees | A |
| Make the sundawn's breeze | A |
| More bright more sweet more heavenly than it rose | B |
| As wind and sun fulfil | C |
| Their living rapture still | C |
| Noon dawn and evening thrill | C |
| With radiant change the immeasurable repose | B |
| Wherewith the woodland wilds lie blest | D |
| And feel how storms and centuries rock them still to rest | D |
| Still the love lit place | E |
| Given of God such grace | E |
| That here was born on earth a birth divine | F |
| Gives thanks with all its flowers | G |
| Through all their lustrous hours | G |
| From all its birds and bowers | G |
| Gives thanks that here they felt her sunset shine | F |
| Where once her sunrise laughed and bade | H |
| The life of all the living things it lit be glad | I |
| Soft as light and strong | J |
| Rises yet their song | J |
| And thrills with pride the cedar crested lawn | K |
| And every brooding dove | L |
| But she beloved above | L |
| All utterance known of love | L |
| Abides no more the change of night and dawn | K |
| Beholds no more with earth born eye | M |
| These woods that watched her waking here where all things die | M |
| Not the light that shone | N |
| When she looked thereon | K |
| Shines on them or shall shine for ever here | O |
| We know not save when sleep | P |
| Slays death who fain would keep | P |
| His mystery dense and deep | P |
| Where shines the smile we held and hold so dear | Q |
| Dreams only thrilled and filled with love | L |
| Bring back its light ere dawn leave nought alive above | L |
| Nought alive awake | R |
| Sees the strong dawn break | R |
| On all the dreams that dying night bade live | S |
| Yet scarce the intolerant sense | T |
| Of day's harsh evidence | U |
| How came their word and whence | T |
| Strikes dumb the song of thanks it bids them give | V |
| The joy that answers as it heard | W |
| And lightens as it saw the light that spake the word | W |
| Night and sleep and dawn | K |
| Pass with dreams withdrawn | K |
| But higher above them far than noon may climb | X |
| Love lives and turns to light | Y |
| The deadly noon of night | Y |
| His fiery spirit of sight | Y |
| Endures no curb of change or darkling time | X |
| Even earth and transient things of earth | Z |
| Even here to him bear witness not of death but birth | Z |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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