Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN ABAB| It is better O day that you go to your rest | A |
| For you go like a guest who was loth to remain | B |
| Swing open ye gates of the east and the west | A |
| And let out the wild shadows the night and the rain | B |
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| Ye winds ye are dead with your voices attuned | C |
| That thrilled the green life in the sweet scented sheaves | D |
| When I touched a warm hand which has faded and swooned | C |
| To a trance of the darkness and blight on the leaves | D |
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| I had studied the lore in her maiden like ways | E |
| And the large hearted love of my Annie was won | F |
| 'Ere Summer had passed into passionate days | E |
| Or Autumn made ready her fruits for the Sun | F |
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| So my life was complete and the hours that went by | G |
| And the moon and the willow wooed waters around | H |
| Might have known that we rested my Annie and I | G |
| In happiness calm as the slumber of sound | H |
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| On Sundays we wandered as glad as a breeze | I |
| By the rocks and the waves on a glittering beach | J |
| Or we loitered in gardens melodious with bees | I |
| And sucked the sweet pulp of the plum and the peach | J |
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| The Forest will show me the secrets of Fame | K |
| I said to myself in the gum shadowed glen | L |
| I will call every blossom and tree by its name | K |
| And the people shall deem me a man of the men | L |
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| I will gather Roses of Sharon my Soul | M |
| The Roses of Sharon so cool and so sweet | N |
| And our brothers shall see me entwining the whole | M |
| For a garland to drop at my dear Annie's feet | N |
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| It is better O day that you go to your rest | A |
| For you go like a guest who was loth to remain | B |
| Swing open ye gates of the east and the west | A |
| And let out the wild shadows the night and the rain | B |
Henry Kendall
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