Over The May Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJBKBK ILILGMGM| All through the night time and all through the day time | A |
| Dreading the morning and dreading the night | B |
| Nearer and nearer we drift to the May time | A |
| Season of beauty and season of blight | B |
| Leaves on the linden and sun on the meadow | C |
| Green in the garden and bloom everywhere | D |
| Gloom in my heart and a terrible shadow | C |
| Walks by me sits by me stands by my chair | D |
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| Oh but the birds by the brooklet are cheery | E |
| Oh but the woods show such delicate greens | F |
| Strange how you droop and how soon you are weary | E |
| Too well I know what that weariness means | F |
| But how could I know in the crisp winter weather | G |
| Though sometimes I noticed a catch in your breath | H |
| Riding and singing and dancing together | G |
| How could I know you were racing with death | H |
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| How could I know when we danced until morning | I |
| And you were the gayest of all the gay crowd | J |
| With only that shortness of breath for a warning | I |
| How could I know that you danced for a shroud | J |
| Whirling and whirling through moonlight and starlight | B |
| Rocking as lightly as boats on the wave | K |
| Down in your eyes shone a deep light a far light | B |
| How could I know 'twas the light to your grave | K |
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| Day by day day by day nearing and nearing | I |
| Hid under greenness and beauty and bloom | L |
| Cometh the shape and the shadow I'm fearing | I |
| Over the May hill is waiting your tomb | L |
| The season of mirth and of music is over | G |
| I have danced my last dance I have sung my last song | M |
| Under the violets under the clover | G |
| My heart and my love will be lying ere long | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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