From Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDEFGGHIHIJJKBBL MNMOPNQRSTUVW WIXHXYHDDZ ZKNKA2B2A2B2DC2DC2ID 2D2IVE2VF2G2H2G2

Now the November skiesA
And the clouds that are thin and grayB
That drop with the wind awayB
A flood of sunlight rollsC
In a tide of shallow lightD
Gold on the land and whiteD
On the water dim and warm in the woodE
Then it is gone and the wanF
Clear of the shadeG
Covers fields and barren and gladeG
The peace of labor doneH
Is wide in the gracious earthI
The harvest is wonH
Past are the tears and the mirthI
And we feel in the tenuous airJ
How far beyond thought or prayerJ
Is the grace of silent thingsK
That work for the world alwayB
Neither for fear nor for payB
And when labor is over restL
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The moil of our fretted lifeM
Is borne anew to the soulN
Borne with its cark and strifeM
Its burden of care and dreadO
Its glories elusive and strangeP
And the weight of the weary wholeN
Presses it down till we cryQ
Where is the fruit of our deedsR
Why should we struggle to buildS
Towers against death on the plainT
All things possess their livesU
Save man whose task and desireV
Transcend his power and his willW
-
The question is over and stillW
Nothing replies but the earthI
Takes on a lovelier hueX
From a cloud that neighbored the sunH
That the sun burned down and throughX
Till it glowed like a seraph's wingY
The fields that were gray and dunH
Are warm in the flowing lightD
Fair in the west the nightD
Strikes in with vibrant starZ
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Something has stirred afarZ
In the shadow that winter flingsK
A message comes up to the soulN
From the soul of inanimate thingsK
A message that widens and growsA2
Till it touches the deeds of manB2
Till we see in the torturous throesA2
Some dawning glimmer of planB2
Till we feel in the deepening nightD
The hand of the angel ContentC2
That stranger of calmness and lightD
With his brow over us bentC2
Who moves with his eyes on the earthI
Whose robe of lambent greenD2
A tissue of herb and its sheenD2
Tells the mother who gave him birthI
The message plays through his powerV
Till it flames exultant in thoughtE2
As the quince tree triumphs in flowerV
The fruit that is checked and marredF2
Goes under the sodG2
The good lives here in the worldH2
It persists it is GodG2

Duncan Campbell Scott



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