The Idyll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEC CFCFCFEE GHIHIHCC JKJKJKLL MNMNMNOO PQRQPQSS MHMHMHOO

This is the valley where we sojourn nowA
Cut up by narrow brooks and rich and greenB
And shaded sweetly by the waving boughA
About the trench where floats the soft sereneB
Arun with waters running low and lowC
Through banks where lately still the tide has beenD
Here is our resting place you walk with meE
And watch the light die out in AmberleyC
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The light that dies is soft and flooding stillC
Shed from the broad expanse of all the skiesF
And brimming up the space from hill to hillC
Where yet the sheep in their sweet exerciseF
Roaming the meadows crop and find their fillC
And to each other speak with moaning criesF
We on the hill side standing rest and seeE
The light die out in brook and grass and treeE
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Lately we walked upon the lonely downsG
And through the still heat of the heavy dayH
We heard the medley of low drifting soundsI
And through the matted brambles found a wayH
Or lightly trod upon enchanted groundsI
Musing or with rich blackberries made delayH
Where feed such fruit on the rich air untilC
We struck like falling stars from Bignor HillC
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Down the vast slope by chalky roads and steepJ
With trees and bushes hidden here and thereK
By circling turns into the valley deepJ
We came and left behind the hill top airK
For this cool village where to night we sleepJ
A country meal a country bed to shareK
With sleepy kisses and contented dreamsL
Over a land of still and narrow streamsL
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The light is ebbing in the dusky skyM
The valley floor is in the shadow HarkN
With rushing and mysterious noises flyM
The bats already looking for the darkN
With blinking still and unaccustomed eyeM
Now over Rackham Mount a steady sparkN
Burns rising slowly in the rising nightO
And pledges peace and promises delightO
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Now from the east the wheeling shade appearsP
And softly night into the valley fallsQ
Soft on the meadows drop her dewy tearsR
Softly a darkness on the crumbled wallsQ
Now in the dusk the village disappearsP
Men's songs are hushed there and the children's callsQ
While night in passage swallows up the landS
And in the shadow your hand seeks my handS
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Only the glimmering stars in heaven lieM
And unseen trees with rustling still betrayH
How all the valley lives invisiblyM
Where dim sweet odours remnants of the dayH
Float from the sleeping fields to please and dieM
Borne up by roaming airs that drift awayH
Beyond our hearing vagabond and lightO
To visit the cool meadows of the nightO

Edward Shanks



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