Good-night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DBEB FGHG| The skylarks are far behind that sang over the down | A |
| I can hear no more those suburb nightingales | B |
| Thrushes and blackbirds sing in the gardens of the town | A |
| In vain the noise of man beast and machine prevails | B |
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| But the call of children in the unfamiliar streets | B |
| That echo with a familiar twilight echoing | C |
| Sweet as the voice of nightingale or lark completes | B |
| A magic of strange welcome so that I seem a king | C |
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| Among men beast machine bird child and the ghost | D |
| That in the echo lives and with the echo dies | B |
| The friendless town is friendly homeless I am not lost | E |
| Though I know none of these doors and meet but strangers' eyes | B |
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| Never again perhaps after to morrow shall | F |
| I see these homely streets these church windows alight | G |
| Not a man or woman or child among them all | H |
| But it is All Friends' Night a traveller's good night | G |
Edward Thomas
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