Day Is Done, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHFH IJGJ KLML NOPO QRPR PSNS QTUT VWQW NJXJThe day is done and the darkness | A |
Falls from the wings of Night | B |
As a feather is wafted downward | C |
From an eagle in his flight | B |
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I see the lights of the village | D |
Gleam through the rain and the mist | E |
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me | F |
That my soul cannot resist | E |
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A feeling of sadness and longing | G |
That is not akin to pain | H |
And resembles sorrow only | F |
As the mist resembles the rain | H |
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Come read to me some poem | I |
Some simple and heartfelt lay | J |
That shall soothe this restless feeling | G |
And banish the thoughts of day | J |
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Not from the grand old masters | K |
Not from the bards sublime | L |
Whose distant footsteps echo | M |
Through the corridors of Time | L |
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For like strains of martial music | N |
Their mighty thoughts suggest | O |
Life's endless toil and endeavor | P |
And to night I long for rest | O |
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Read from some humbler poet | Q |
Whose songs gushed from his heart | R |
As showers from the clouds of summer | P |
Or tears from the eyelids start | R |
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Who through long days of labor | P |
And nights devoid of ease | S |
Still heard in his soul the music | N |
Of wonderful melodies | S |
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Such songs have power to quiet | Q |
The restless pulse of care | T |
And come like the benediction | U |
That follows after prayer | T |
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Then read from the treasured volume | V |
The poem of thy choice | W |
And lend to the rhyme of the poet | Q |
The beauty of thy voice | W |
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And the night shall be filled with music | N |
And the cares that infest the day | J |
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs | X |
And as silently steal away | J |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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