The Idyll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEC CFCFCFEE GHIHIHCC JKJKJKLL MNMNMNOO PQRQPQSS MHMHMHOOThis is the valley where we sojourn now | A |
Cut up by narrow brooks and rich and green | B |
And shaded sweetly by the waving bough | A |
About the trench where floats the soft serene | B |
Arun with waters running low and low | C |
Through banks where lately still the tide has been | D |
Here is our resting place you walk with me | E |
And watch the light die out in Amberley | C |
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The light that dies is soft and flooding still | C |
Shed from the broad expanse of all the skies | F |
And brimming up the space from hill to hill | C |
Where yet the sheep in their sweet exercise | F |
Roaming the meadows crop and find their fill | C |
And to each other speak with moaning cries | F |
We on the hill side standing rest and see | E |
The light die out in brook and grass and tree | E |
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Lately we walked upon the lonely downs | G |
And through the still heat of the heavy day | H |
We heard the medley of low drifting sounds | I |
And through the matted brambles found a way | H |
Or lightly trod upon enchanted grounds | I |
Musing or with rich blackberries made delay | H |
Where feed such fruit on the rich air until | C |
We struck like falling stars from Bignor Hill | C |
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Down the vast slope by chalky roads and steep | J |
With trees and bushes hidden here and there | K |
By circling turns into the valley deep | J |
We came and left behind the hill top air | K |
For this cool village where to night we sleep | J |
A country meal a country bed to share | K |
With sleepy kisses and contented dreams | L |
Over a land of still and narrow streams | L |
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The light is ebbing in the dusky sky | M |
The valley floor is in the shadow Hark | N |
With rushing and mysterious noises fly | M |
The bats already looking for the dark | N |
With blinking still and unaccustomed eye | M |
Now over Rackham Mount a steady spark | N |
Burns rising slowly in the rising night | O |
And pledges peace and promises delight | O |
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Now from the east the wheeling shade appears | P |
And softly night into the valley falls | Q |
Soft on the meadows drop her dewy tears | R |
Softly a darkness on the crumbled walls | Q |
Now in the dusk the village disappears | P |
Men's songs are hushed there and the children's calls | Q |
While night in passage swallows up the land | S |
And in the shadow your hand seeks my hand | S |
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Only the glimmering stars in heaven lie | M |
And unseen trees with rustling still betray | H |
How all the valley lives invisibly | M |
Where dim sweet odours remnants of the day | H |
Float from the sleeping fields to please and die | M |
Borne up by roaming airs that drift away | H |
Beyond our hearing vagabond and light | O |
To visit the cool meadows of the night | O |
Edward Shanks
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