In The Junetwilight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIFI EJH AKL FMN MOEO| IN the June twilight in the soft gray twilight | A |
| The yellow sun glow trembling through the rainy eve | B |
| As my love lay quiet came the solemn fiat | C |
| 'All these things forever forever thou must leave ' | D |
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| My love she sank down quivering like a pine in tempest shivering | E |
| 'I have had so little happiness as yet beneath the sun | F |
| I have called the shadow sunshine and the merest frosty moonshine | G |
| I have weeping blessed the Lord for as if daylight had begun | F |
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| 'Till He sent a sudden angel with a glorious sweet evangel | H |
| Who turned all my tears to pearl gems and crowned me so little worth | I |
| Me and through the rainy even changed my poor earth into heaven | F |
| Or by wondrous revelation brought the heavens down to earth | I |
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| 'O the strangeness of the feeling O the infinite revealing | E |
| To think how God must love me to have made me so content | J |
| Though I would have served Him humbly and patiently and dumbly | H |
| Without any angel standing in the pathway that I went ' | - |
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| In the June twilight in the lessening twilight | A |
| My love cried from my bosom an exceeding bitter cry | K |
| 'Lord wait a little longer until my soul is stronger | L |
| O wait till Thou hast taught me to be content to die ' | - |
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| Then the tender face all woman took a glory superhuman | F |
| And she seemed to watch for something or see some I could not see | M |
| From my arms she rose full statured all transfigured queenly featured | N |
| 'As Thy will is done in heaven so on earth still let it be ' | - |
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| I go lonely I go lonely and I feel that earth is only | M |
| The vestibule of palaces whose courts we never win | O |
| Yet I see my palace shining where my love sits amaranths twining | E |
| And I know the gates stand open and I shall enter in | O |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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