The Longest Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDEDC FBFBBGHIHJ IKIKKLMNML OPOPPQRSRQOn yonder hills soft twilight dwells | A |
And Hesper burns where sunset dies | B |
Moist and chill the woodland smells | A |
From the fern covered hollows uprise | B |
Darkness drops not from the skies | B |
But shadows of darkness are flung o'er the vale | C |
From the boughs of the chestnut the oak and the elm | D |
While night in yon lines of eastern pines | E |
Preserves alone her inviolate realm | D |
Against the twilight pale | C |
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Say then say what is this day | F |
That it lingers thus with half closed eyes | B |
When the sunset is quenched and the orient ray | F |
Of the roseate moon doth rise | B |
Like a midnight sun o'er the skies | B |
'Tis the longest the longest of all the glad year | G |
The longest in life and the fairest in hue | H |
When day and night in bridal light | I |
Mingle their beings beneath the sweet blue | H |
And bless the balmy air | J |
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Upward to this starry height | I |
The culminating seasons rolled | K |
On one slope green with spring delight | I |
The other with harvest gold | K |
And treasures of Autumn untold | K |
And on this highest throne of the midsummer now | L |
The waning but deathless day doth dream | M |
With a rapturous grace as tho' from the face | N |
Of the unveiled infinity lo a far beam | M |
Had fall'n on her dim flushed brow | L |
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Prolong prolong that tide of song | O |
O leafy nightingale and thrush | P |
Still earnest throated blackcap throng | O |
The woods with that emulous gush | P |
Of notes in tumultuous rush | P |
Ye summer souls raise up one voice | Q |
A charm is afloat all over the land | R |
The ripe year doth fall to the Spirit of all | S |
Who blesses it with outstretched hand | R |
Ye summer souls rejoice | Q |
George Meredith
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