The Voice And The Dusk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGH IJIJ CKC LMLH NONO PQPQ| THE slender moon and one pale star | A |
| A rose leaf and a silver bee | B |
| From some god's garden blown afar | A |
| Go down the gold deep tranquilly | C |
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| Within the south there rolls and grows | D |
| A mighty town with tower and spire | E |
| From a cloud bastion masked with rose | D |
| The lightning flashes diamond fire | F |
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| The purple martin darts about | G |
| The purlieus of the iris fen | H |
| The king bird rushes up and out | G |
| He screams and whirls and screams again | H |
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| A thrush is hidden in a maze | I |
| Of cedar buds and tamarac bloom | J |
| He throws his rapid flexile phrase | I |
| A flash of emeralds in the gloom | J |
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| A voice is singing from the hill | C |
| A happy love of long ago | K |
| Ah tender voice be still be still | C |
| ''Tis sometimes better not to know ' | - |
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| The rapture from the amber height | L |
| Floats tremblingly along the plain | M |
| Where in the reeds with fairy light | L |
| The lingering fireflies gleam again | H |
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| Buried in dingles more remote | N |
| Or drifted from some ferny rise | O |
| The swooning of the golden throat | N |
| Drops in the mellow dusk and dies | O |
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| A soft wind passes lightly drawn | P |
| A wave leaps silverly and stirs | Q |
| The rustling sedge and then is gone | P |
| Down the black cavern in the firs | Q |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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