Day Is Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GEHE BEIE HBJBDay is dying Float o song | A |
Down the westward river | B |
Requiem chanting to the Day | C |
Day the mighty giver | B |
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Pierced by shafts of Time he bleeds | D |
Melted rubies sending | E |
Through the river and the sky | F |
Earth and heaven blending | E |
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All the long drawn earthy banks | G |
Up to cloudland lifting | E |
Slow between them drifts the swan | H |
'Twixt two heavens drifting | E |
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Wings half open like a flower | B |
In by deeper flushing | E |
Neck and breast as virgin's pure | I |
Virgin proudly blushing | E |
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Day is dying Float o swan | H |
Down the ruby river | B |
Follow song in requiem | J |
To the mighty Giver | B |
George Eliot
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