A Night-piece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKL MNMN| Come out and walk The last few drops of light | A |
| Drain silently out of the cloudy blue | B |
| The trees are full of the dark stooping night | A |
| The fields are wet with dew | B |
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| All's quiet in the wood but far away | C |
| Down the hillside and out across the plain | D |
| Moves with long trail of white that marks its way | C |
| The softly panting train | D |
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| Come through the clearing Hardly now we see | E |
| The flowers save dark or light against the grass | F |
| Or glimmering silver on a scented tree | E |
| That trembles as we pass | F |
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| Hark now So far so far that distant song | G |
| Move not the rustling grasses with your feet | H |
| The dusk is full of sounds that all along | G |
| The muttering boughs repeat | H |
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| So far so faint we lift our heads in doubt | I |
| Wind or the blood that beats within our ears | J |
| Has feigned a dubious and delusive note | K |
| Such as a dreamer hears | L |
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| Again again The faint sounds rise and fail | M |
| So far the enchanted tree the song so low | N |
| A drowsy thrush A waking nightingale | M |
| Silence We do not know | N |
Edward Shanks
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