After Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKK LLMM| I have an understanding with the hills | A |
| At evening when the slanted radiance fills | A |
| Their hollows and the great winds let them be | B |
| And they are quiet and look down at me | B |
| Oh then I see the patience in their eyes | C |
| Out of the centuries that made them wise | C |
| They lend me hoarded memory and I learn | D |
| Their thoughts of granite and their whims of fern | D |
| And why a dream of forests must endure | E |
| Though every tree be slain and how the pure | E |
| Invisible beauty has a word so brief | F |
| A flower can say it or a shaken leaf | F |
| But few may ever snare it in a song | G |
| Though for the quest a life is not too long | G |
| When the blue hills grow tender when they pull | H |
| The twilight close with gesture beautiful | I |
| And shadows are their garments and the air | J |
| Deepens and the wild veery is at prayer | J |
| Their arms are strong around me and I know | K |
| That somehow I shall follow when you go | K |
| To the still land beyond the evening star | L |
| Where everlasting hills and valleys are | L |
| And silence may not hurt us any more | M |
| And terror shall be past and grief and war | M |
Grace Hazard Conkling
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Linda Pope: This is the poem I think of when I go to sleep. It is one of my all time favorites.
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