Curfew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB CDED FGHI CBJB A KLML NBOB HPQP GBJB| I | A |
| - | |
| Solemnly mournfully | B |
| Dealing its dole | B |
| The Curfew Bell | B |
| Is beginning to toll | B |
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| Cover the embers | C |
| Aand put out the light | D |
| Toil comes with morning | E |
| And rest with the night | D |
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| Dark grow the windows | F |
| And quenched is the fire | G |
| Sound fades into silence | H |
| All footsteps retire | I |
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| No voice in the chambers | C |
| No sound in the hall | B |
| Sleep and oblivion | J |
| Reign over all | B |
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| II | A |
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| The book is completed | K |
| And closed like the day | L |
| And the hand that has written it | M |
| Lays it away | L |
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| Dim grow its fancies | N |
| Forgotten they lie | B |
| Like coals in the ashes | O |
| They darken and die | B |
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| Song sinks into silence | H |
| The story is told | P |
| The windows are darkened | Q |
| The hearth stone is cold | P |
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| Darker and darker | G |
| The black shadows fall | B |
| Sleep and oblivion | J |
| Reign over all | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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