Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Day Is Done, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHFH IJGJ KLML NOPO QRPR PSNS QTUT VWQW NJXJ

The day is done and the darknessA
Falls from the wings of NightB
As a feather is wafted downwardC
From an eagle in his flightB
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I see the lights of the villageD
Gleam through the rain and the mistE
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er meF
That my soul cannot resistE
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A feeling of sadness and longingG
That is not akin to painH
And resembles sorrow onlyF
As the mist resembles the rainH
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Come read to me some poemI
Some simple and heartfelt layJ
That shall soothe this restless feelingG
And banish the thoughts of dayJ
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Not from the grand old mastersK
Not from the bards sublimeL
Whose distant footsteps echoM
Through the corridors of TimeL
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For like strains of martial musicN
Their mighty thoughts suggestO
Life's endless toil and endeavorP
And to night I long for restO
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Read from some humbler poetQ
Whose songs gushed from his heartR
As showers from the clouds of summerP
Or tears from the eyelids startR
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Who through long days of laborP
And nights devoid of easeS
Still heard in his soul the musicN
Of wonderful melodiesS
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Such songs have power to quietQ
The restless pulse of careT
And come like the benedictionU
That follows after prayerT
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Then read from the treasured volumeV
The poem of thy choiceW
And lend to the rhyme of the poetQ
The beauty of thy voiceW
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And the night shall be filled with musicN
And the cares that infest the dayJ
Shall fold their tents like the ArabsX
And as silently steal awayJ

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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