The Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF CCGG HHIJ KKLL MMNO AAPP| WHEN twilight's grey and pensive hour | A |
| Brings the low breeze and shuts the flower | A |
| And bids the solitary star | B |
| Shine in pale beauty from afar | B |
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| When gathering shades the landscape veil | C |
| And peasants seek their village dale | C |
| And mists from river wave arise | D |
| And dew in every blossom lies | D |
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| When evening's primrose opes to shed | E |
| Soft fragrance round her grassy bed | E |
| When glow worms in the wood walk light | F |
| Their lamp to cheer the traveller's sight | F |
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| At that calm hour so still so pale | C |
| Awakes the lonely Nightingale | C |
| And from a hermitage of shade | G |
| Fills with her voice the forest glade | G |
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| And sweeter far that melting voice | H |
| Than all which through the day rejoice | H |
| And still shall bard and wanderer love | I |
| The twilight music of the grove | J |
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| Father in Heaven oh thus when day | K |
| With all its cares hath passed away | K |
| And silent hours waft peace on earth | L |
| And hush the louder strains of mirth | L |
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| Thus may sweet songs of praise and prayer | M |
| To Thee my spirit's offering bear | M |
| Yon star my signal set on high | N |
| For vesper hymns of piety | O |
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| So may thy mercy and thy power | A |
| Protect me through the midnight hour | A |
| And balmy sleep and visions blest | P |
| Smile on thy servant's bed of rest | P |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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