A Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDC AAEFFE GGCCCC HHIGGI CCHAAH CCCJJC GGKLMK NNGGGG| From Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne' | A |
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| I love the evenings passionless and fair I love the evens | B |
| Whether old manor fronts their ray with golden fulgence leavens | B |
| In numerous leafage bosomed close | C |
| Whether the mist in reefs of fire extend its reaches sheer | D |
| Or a hundred sunbeams splinter in an azure atmosphere | D |
| On cloudy archipelagos | C |
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| Oh gaze ye on the firmament a hundred clouds in motion | A |
| Up piled in the immense sublime beneath the winds' commotion | A |
| Their unimagined shapes accord | E |
| Under their waves at intervals flames a pale levin through | F |
| As if some giant of the air amid the vapours drew | F |
| A sudden elemental sword | E |
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| The sun at bay with splendid thrusts still keeps the sullen fold | G |
| And momently at distance sets as a cupola of gold | G |
| The thatched roof of a cot a glance | C |
| Or on the blurred horizons joins his battle with the haze | C |
| Or pools the glooming fields about with inter isolate blaze | C |
| Great moveless meres of radiance | C |
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| Then mark you how there hangs athwart the firmament's swept track | H |
| Yonder a mighty crocodile with vast irradiant back | H |
| A triple row of pointed teeth | I |
| Under its burnished belly slips a ray of eventide | G |
| The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds its tenebrous side | G |
| With scales of golden mail ensheathe | I |
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| Then mounts a palace then the air vibrates the vision flees | C |
| Confounded to its base the fearful cloudy edifice | C |
| Ruins immense in mounded wrack | H |
| Afar the fragments strew the sky and each envermeiled cone | A |
| Hangeth peak downward overhead like mountains overthrown | A |
| When the earthquake heaves its hugy back | H |
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| These vapours with their leaden golden iron bronz ed glows | C |
| Where the hurricane the waterspout thunder and hell repose | C |
| Muttering hoarse dreams of destined harms | C |
| 'Tis God who hangs their multitude amid the skiey deep | J |
| As a warrior that suspendeth from the roof tree of his keep | J |
| His dreadful and resounding arms | C |
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| All vanishes The sun from topmost heaven precipitated | G |
| Like to a globe of iron which is tossed back fiery red | G |
| Into the furnace stirred to fume | K |
| Shocking the cloudy surges plashed from its impetuous ire | L |
| Even to the zenith spattereth in a flecking scud of fire | M |
| The vaporous and inflam ed spume | K |
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| O contemplate the heavens whenas the vein drawn day dies pale | N |
| In every season every place gaze through their every veil | N |
| With love that has not speech for need | G |
| Beneath their solemn beauty is a mystery infinite | G |
| If winter hue them like a pall or if the summer night | G |
| Fantasy them with starry brede | G |
Francis Thompson
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