John Day: Xiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDCCD| DAY was a full blown flower in heaven alive | A |
| With murmuring joy of bees and birds aswarm | B |
| When in the skies of song yet flushed and warm | B |
| With music where all passion seems to strive | A |
| For utterance all things bright and fierce to drive | A |
| Struggling along the splendour of the storm | B |
| Day for an hour put off his fiery form | B |
| And golden murmurs from a golden hive | A |
| Across the strong bright summer wind were heard | C |
| And laughter soft as smiles from girls at play | D |
| And loud from lips of boys brow bound with May | D |
| Our mightiest age let fall its gentlest word | C |
| When Song in semblance of a sweet small bird | C |
| Lit fluttering on the light swift hand of Day | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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