A Noonday Melody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHGH| Everything goes to its rest | A |
| The hills are asleep in the noon | B |
| And life is as still in its nest | A |
| As the moon when she looks on a moon | B |
| In the depth of a calm river's breast | A |
| As it steals through a midnight in June | B |
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| The streams have forgotten the sea | C |
| In the dream of their musical sound | D |
| The sunlight is thick on the tree | C |
| And the shadows lie warm on the ground | D |
| So still you may watch them and see | C |
| Every breath that awakens around | D |
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| The churchyard lies still in the heat | E |
| With its handful of mouldering bone | F |
| As still as the long stalk of wheat | E |
| In the shadow that sits by the stone | F |
| As still as the grass at my feet | E |
| When I walk in the meadows alone | F |
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| The waves are asleep on the main | G |
| And the ships are asleep on the wave | H |
| And the thoughts are as still in my brain | G |
| As the echo that sleeps in the cave | H |
| All rest from their labour and pain | G |
| Then why should not I in my grave | H |
George Macdonald
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