Daylight Is Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDAEAEFGFG HEHEIFFF FJFJKFKF LMLMJNJN AOAPQFQFRMRM| The 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
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