Day Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJHK LLMM FFCC| All yesterday the thought of you was resting in my soul | A |
| And when sleep wandered o'er the world that very thought she stole | A |
| To fill my dreams with splendour such as stars could not eclipse | B |
| And in the morn I wakened with your name upon my lips | B |
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| Awakened my beloved to the morning of your eyes | C |
| Your splendid eyes so full of clouds wherein a shadow tries | C |
| To overcome the flame that melts into the world of grey | D |
| As coming suns dissolve the dark that veils the edge of day | D |
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| Cool drifts the air at dawn of day cool lies the sleeping dew | E |
| But all my heart is burning for it woke from dreams of you | E |
| And O these longing eyes of mine look out and only see | F |
| A dying night a waking day and calm on all but me | F |
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| So gently creeps the morning through the heavy air | G |
| The dawn grey garbed and velvet shod is wandering everywhere | G |
| To wake the slumber laden hours that leave their dreamless rest | H |
| With outspread laggard wings to court the pillows of the west | H |
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| Up from the earth a moisture steals with odours fresh and soft | I |
| A smell of moss and grasses warm with dew and far aloft | J |
| The stars are growing colourless while drooping in the west | H |
| A late wan moon is paling in a sky of amethyst | K |
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| The passing of the shadows as they waft their pinions near | L |
| Has stirred a tender wind within the night hushed atmosphere | L |
| That in its homeless wanderings sobs in an undertone | M |
| An echo to my heart that sobbing calls for you alone | M |
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| The night is gone beloved and another day set free | F |
| Another day of hunger for the one I may not see | F |
| What care I for the perfect dawn the blue and empty skies | C |
| The night is always mine without the morning of your eyes | C |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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