A Dawn Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN O| While the earth is dark and grey | A |
| How I laugh within I know | B |
| In my breast what ardours gay | A |
| From the morning overflow | B |
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| Though the cheek be white and wet | C |
| In my heart no fear may fall | D |
| There my chieftain leads and yet | C |
| Ancient battle trumpets call | D |
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| Bend on me no hasty frown | E |
| If my spirit slight your cares | F |
| Sunlike still my joy looks down | E |
| Changing tears to beamy airs | F |
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| Think me not of fickle heart | G |
| If with joy my bosom swells | H |
| Though your ways from mine depart | G |
| In the true are no farewells | H |
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| What I love in you I find | I |
| Everywhere A friend I greet | J |
| In each flower and tree and wind | I |
| Oh but life is sweet is sweet | J |
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| What to you are bolts and bars | K |
| Are to me the hands that guide | L |
| To the freedom of the stars | K |
| Where my golden kinsmen bide | L |
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| From my mountain top I view | M |
| Twilight's purple flower is gone | N |
| And I send my song to you | M |
| On the level light of dawn | N |
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| November | O |
George William Russell
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