Vesperal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ACCA ADDA AEFA| Strange 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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