Good-night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DBEB FGHG

The skylarks are far behind that sang over the downA
I can hear no more those suburb nightingalesB
Thrushes and blackbirds sing in the gardens of the townA
In vain the noise of man beast and machine prevailsB
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But the call of children in the unfamiliar streetsB
That echo with a familiar twilight echoingC
Sweet as the voice of nightingale or lark completesB
A magic of strange welcome so that I seem a kingC
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Among men beast machine bird child and the ghostD
That in the echo lives and with the echo diesB
The friendless town is friendly homeless I am not lostE
Though I know none of these doors and meet but strangers' eyesB
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Never again perhaps after to morrow shallF
I see these homely streets these church windows alightG
Not a man or woman or child among them allH
But it is All Friends' Night a traveller's good nightG

Edward Thomas



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