Voices Of The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC C DEDEDE CFCGCF EHEHEH IJK KK LELELE LELELE'The tender Grace of a day that is past ' | A |
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The dew is on the roses | B |
The owl hath spread her wing | C |
And vocal are the noses | B |
Of peasant and of king | C |
'Nature' in short 'reposes ' | - |
But I do no such thing | C |
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Pent in my lonesome study | D |
Here I must sit and muse | E |
Sit till the morn grows ruddy | D |
Till rising with the dews | E |
'Jeameses' remove the muddy | D |
Spots from their masters' shoes | E |
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Yet are sweet faces flinging | C |
Their witchery o'er me here | F |
I hear sweet voices singing | C |
A song as soft as clear | G |
As previously to stinging | C |
A gnat sings round one's ear | F |
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Does Grace draw young Apollos | E |
In blue mustachios still | H |
Does Emma tell the swallows | E |
How she will pipe and trill | H |
When some fine day she follows | E |
Those birds to the window sill | H |
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And oh has Albert faded | I |
From Grace's memory yet | J |
Albert whose 'brow was shaded | K |
By locks of glossiest jet ' | - |
Whom almost any lady'd | K |
Have given her eyes to get | K |
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Does not her conscience smite her | L |
For one who hourly pines | E |
Thinking her bright eyes brighter | L |
Than any star that shines | E |
I mean of course the writer | L |
Of these pathetic lines | E |
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Who knows As quoth Sir Walter | L |
'Time rolls his ceaseless course | E |
'The Grace of yore' may alter | L |
And then I've one resource | E |
I'll invest in a bran new halter | L |
And I'll perish without remorse | E |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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