Vesperal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ACCA ADDA AEFAStrange grows the river on the sunless evenings | A |
The river comforts me grown spectral vague and dumb | B |
Long was the day at last the consoling shadows come | B |
Sufficient for the day are the day's evil things | A |
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Labour and longing and despair the long day brings | A |
Patient till evening men watch the sun go west | C |
Deferred expected night at last brings sleep and rest | C |
Sufficient for the day are the day's evil things | A |
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At last the tranquil Angelus of evening rings | A |
Night's curtain down for comfort and oblivion | D |
Of all the vanities observed by the sun | D |
Sufficient for the day are the day's evil things | A |
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So some time when the last of all our evenings | A |
Crowneth memorially the last of all our days | E |
Not loth to take his poppies man goes down and says | F |
Sufficient for the day were the day's evil things | A |
Ernest Dowson
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