The Twilight Of Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNOO PQRQSS TUTUVV WXWXYY ZA2ZZZZ SB2SB2QQ| The wonder of the world is o'er | A |
| The magic from the sea is gone | B |
| There is no unimagined shore | C |
| No islet yet to venture on | D |
| The Sacred Hazels' blooms are shed | E |
| The Nuts of Knowledge harvested | F |
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| Oh what is worth this lore of age | G |
| If time shall never bring us back | H |
| Our battle with the gods to wage | G |
| Reeling along the starry track | H |
| The battle rapture here goes by | I |
| In warring upon things that die | I |
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| Let be the tale of him whose love | J |
| Was sighed between white Deirdre's breasts | K |
| It will not lift the heart above | J |
| The sodden clay on which it rests | K |
| Love once had power the gods to bring | L |
| All rapt on its wild wandering | L |
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| We shiver in the falling dew | M |
| And seek a shelter from the storm | N |
| When man these elder brothers knew | M |
| He found the mother nature warm | N |
| A hearth fire blazing through it all | O |
| A home without a circling wall | O |
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| We dwindle down beneath the skies | P |
| And from ourselves we pass away | Q |
| The paradise of memories | R |
| Grows ever fainter day by day | Q |
| The shepherd stars have shrunk within | S |
| The world's great night will soon begin | S |
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| Will no one ere it is too late | T |
| Ere fades the last memorial gleam | U |
| Recall for us our earlier state | T |
| For nothing but so vast a dream | U |
| That it would scale the steeps of air | V |
| Could rouse us from so vast despair | V |
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| The power is ours to make or mar | W |
| Our fate as on the earliest morn | X |
| The Darkness and the Radiance are | W |
| Creatures within the spirit born | X |
| Yet bathed in gloom too long we might | Y |
| Forget how we imagined light | Y |
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| Not yet are fixed the prison bars | Z |
| The hidden light the spirit owns | A2 |
| If blown to flame would dim the stars | Z |
| And they who rule them from their thrones | Z |
| And the proud sceptred spirits thence | Z |
| Would bow to pay us reverence | Z |
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| Oh while the glory sinks within | S |
| Let us not wait on earth behind | B2 |
| But follow where it flies and win | S |
| The glow again and we may find | B2 |
| Beyond the Gateways of the Day | Q |
| Dominion and ancestral sway | Q |
George William Russell
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