At Dusk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ DLDL MNMN OLOL PLPL QRQR| AT DUSK like flowers that shun the day | A |
| Shy thoughts from dim recesses break | B |
| And plead for words I dare not say | A |
| For your sweet sake | B |
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| My early love my first my last | C |
| Mistakes have been that both must rue | D |
| But all the passion of the past | C |
| Survives for you | D |
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| The tender message Hope might send | E |
| Sinks fainting at the lips of speech | F |
| For are you lover are you friend | E |
| That I would reach | F |
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| How much to night I d give to win | G |
| A banished peace an old repose | H |
| But here I sit and sigh and sin | G |
| When no one knows | H |
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| The stern the steadfast reticence | I |
| Which made the dearest phrases halt | J |
| And checked a first and finest sense | K |
| Was not my fault | J |
| - | |
| I held my words because there grew | D |
| About my life persistent pride | L |
| And you were loved who never knew | D |
| What love could hide | L |
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| This purpose filled my soul like flame | M |
| To win you wealth and take the place | N |
| Where care is not nor any shame | M |
| To vex your face | N |
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| I said Till then my heart must keep | O |
| Its secrets safe and unconfest | L |
| And days and nights unknown to sleep | O |
| The vow attest | L |
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| Yet oh my sweet it seems so long | P |
| Since you were near and fates retard | L |
| The sequel of a struggle strong | P |
| And life is hard | L |
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| Too hard when one is left alone | Q |
| To wrestle passion never free | R |
| To turn and say to you My own | Q |
| Come home to me | R |
Henry Kendall
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