Daylight Is Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDAEAEFGFG HEHEIFFF FJFJKFKF LMLMJNJN AOAPQFQFRMRMThe daylight is dying | A |
Away in the west | B |
The wild birds are flying | A |
in silence to rest | B |
In leafage and frondage | C |
Where shadows are deep | D |
They pass to its bondage | C |
The kingdom of sleep | D |
And watched in their sleeping | A |
By stars in the height | E |
They rest in your keeping | A |
O wonderful night | E |
When night doth her glories | F |
Of starshine unfold | G |
'Tis then that the stories | F |
Of bush land are told | G |
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Unnumbered I told them | H |
In memories bright | E |
But who could unfold them | H |
Or read them aright | E |
Beyond all denials | I |
The stars in their glories | F |
The breeze in the myalls | F |
Are part of these stories | F |
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The waving of grasses | F |
The song of the river | J |
That sings as it passes | F |
For ever and ever | J |
The hobble chains' rattle | K |
The calling of birds | F |
The lowing of cattle | K |
Must blend with the words | F |
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Without these indeed you | L |
Would find it ere long | M |
As though I should read you | L |
The words of a song | M |
That lamely would linger | J |
When lacking the rune | N |
The voice of a singer | J |
The lilt of the tune | N |
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But as one halk bearing | A |
An old time refrain | O |
With memory clearing | A |
Recalls it again | P |
These tales roughly wrought of | Q |
The Bush and its ways | F |
May call back a thought of | Q |
The wandering days | F |
And blending with each | R |
In the memories that throng | M |
There haply shall reach | R |
You some echo of song | M |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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