From Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDEFGGHIHIJJKBBL MNMOPNQRSTUVW WIXHXYHDDZ ZKNKA2B2A2B2DC2DC2ID 2D2IVE2VF2G2H2G2Now the November skies | A |
And the clouds that are thin and gray | B |
That drop with the wind away | B |
A flood of sunlight rolls | C |
In a tide of shallow light | D |
Gold on the land and white | D |
On the water dim and warm in the wood | E |
Then it is gone and the wan | F |
Clear of the shade | G |
Covers fields and barren and glade | G |
The peace of labor done | H |
Is wide in the gracious earth | I |
The harvest is won | H |
Past are the tears and the mirth | I |
And we feel in the tenuous air | J |
How far beyond thought or prayer | J |
Is the grace of silent things | K |
That work for the world alway | B |
Neither for fear nor for pay | B |
And when labor is over rest | L |
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The moil of our fretted life | M |
Is borne anew to the soul | N |
Borne with its cark and strife | M |
Its burden of care and dread | O |
Its glories elusive and strange | P |
And the weight of the weary whole | N |
Presses it down till we cry | Q |
Where is the fruit of our deeds | R |
Why should we struggle to build | S |
Towers against death on the plain | T |
All things possess their lives | U |
Save man whose task and desire | V |
Transcend his power and his will | W |
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The question is over and still | W |
Nothing replies but the earth | I |
Takes on a lovelier hue | X |
From a cloud that neighbored the sun | H |
That the sun burned down and through | X |
Till it glowed like a seraph's wing | Y |
The fields that were gray and dun | H |
Are warm in the flowing light | D |
Fair in the west the night | D |
Strikes in with vibrant star | Z |
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Something has stirred afar | Z |
In the shadow that winter flings | K |
A message comes up to the soul | N |
From the soul of inanimate things | K |
A message that widens and grows | A2 |
Till it touches the deeds of man | B2 |
Till we see in the torturous throes | A2 |
Some dawning glimmer of plan | B2 |
Till we feel in the deepening night | D |
The hand of the angel Content | C2 |
That stranger of calmness and light | D |
With his brow over us bent | C2 |
Who moves with his eyes on the earth | I |
Whose robe of lambent green | D2 |
A tissue of herb and its sheen | D2 |
Tells the mother who gave him birth | I |
The message plays through his power | V |
Till it flames exultant in thought | E2 |
As the quince tree triumphs in flower | V |
The fruit that is checked and marred | F2 |
Goes under the sod | G2 |
The good lives here in the world | H2 |
It persists it is God | G2 |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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