The Longest Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDEDC FBFBBGHIHJ IKIKKLMNML OPOPPQRSRQ

On yonder hills soft twilight dwellsA
And Hesper burns where sunset diesB
Moist and chill the woodland smellsA
From the fern covered hollows upriseB
Darkness drops not from the skiesB
But shadows of darkness are flung o'er the valeC
From the boughs of the chestnut the oak and the elmD
While night in yon lines of eastern pinesE
Preserves alone her inviolate realmD
Against the twilight paleC
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Say then say what is this dayF
That it lingers thus with half closed eyesB
When the sunset is quenched and the orient rayF
Of the roseate moon doth riseB
Like a midnight sun o'er the skiesB
'Tis the longest the longest of all the glad yearG
The longest in life and the fairest in hueH
When day and night in bridal lightI
Mingle their beings beneath the sweet blueH
And bless the balmy airJ
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Upward to this starry heightI
The culminating seasons rolledK
On one slope green with spring delightI
The other with harvest goldK
And treasures of Autumn untoldK
And on this highest throne of the midsummer nowL
The waning but deathless day doth dreamM
With a rapturous grace as tho' from the faceN
Of the unveiled infinity lo a far beamM
Had fall'n on her dim flushed browL
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Prolong prolong that tide of songO
O leafy nightingale and thrushP
Still earnest throated blackcap throngO
The woods with that emulous gushP
Of notes in tumultuous rushP
Ye summer souls raise up one voiceQ
A charm is afloat all over the landR
The ripe year doth fall to the Spirit of allS
Who blesses it with outstretched handR
Ye summer souls rejoiceQ

George Meredith



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