Voices Of The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBC DEDDDF GHGGGH DIDDDI JGJJJG KLKKKL DMDDDM DLDDDL LNLLLN COCCCO PLPPPL QDQLQD RSTRRS LLLLLL DDDDDD GCGGGC UDBUUD LOLLL LILLLIPRELUDE | A |
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Pleasant it was when woods were green | B |
And winds were soft and low | C |
To lie amid some sylvan scene | B |
Where the long drooping boughs between | B |
Shadows dark and sunlight sheen | B |
Alternate come and go | C |
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Or where the denser grove receives | D |
No sunlight from above | E |
But the dark foliage interweaves | D |
In one unbroken roof of leaves | D |
Underneath whose sloping eaves | D |
The shadows hardly move | F |
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Beneath some patriarchal tree | G |
I lay upon the ground | H |
His hoary arms uplifted he | G |
And all the broad leaves over me | G |
Clapped their little hands in glee | G |
With one continuous sound | H |
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A slumberous sound a sound that brings | D |
The feelings of a dream | I |
As of innumerable wings | D |
As when a bell no longer swings | D |
Faint the hollow murmur rings | D |
O'er meadow lake and stream | I |
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And dreams of that which cannot die | J |
Bright visins came to me | G |
As lapped in thought I used to lie | J |
And gaze into the summer sky | J |
Where the sailing clouds went by | J |
Like ships upon the sea | G |
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Dreams that the soul of youth engage | K |
Ere Fancy has been quelled | L |
Old legends of the monkish page | K |
Traditions of the saint and sage | K |
Tales that have the rime of age | K |
And chronicles of Eld | L |
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And loving still these quaint old themes | D |
Even in the city's throng | M |
I feel the freshness of the streams | D |
That crossed by shades and sunny gleams | D |
Water the green land of dreams | D |
The holy land of song | M |
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Therefore at Pentecost which brings | D |
The Spring clothed like a bride | L |
When nestling buds unfold their wings | D |
And bishop's caps have golden rings | D |
Musing upon many things | D |
I sought the woodlands wide | L |
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The green trees whispered low and mild | L |
It was a sound of joy | N |
They were my playmates when a child | L |
And rocked me in their arms so wild | L |
Still they looked at me and smiled | L |
As if I were a boy | N |
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And ever whispered mild and low | C |
Come be a child once more | O |
And waved their long arms to and fro | C |
And beckoned solemnly and slow | C |
O I could not choose but go | C |
Into the woodlands hoar | O |
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Into the blithe and breathing air | P |
Into the solemn wood | L |
Solemn and silent everywhere | P |
Nature with folded hands seemed there | P |
Kneeling at her evening prayer | P |
Like one in prayer I stood | L |
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Before me rose an avenue | Q |
Of tall and sombrous pines | D |
Abroad their fan like branches grew | Q |
And where the sunshine darted throught | L |
Spread a vapor soft and blue | Q |
In long and sloping lines | D |
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And falling on my weary brain | R |
Like a fast falling shower | S |
The dreams of youth came back again | T |
Low lispings of the summer rain | R |
Dropping on the ripened grain | R |
As once upon the flower | S |
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Visions of childhood Stay O stay | L |
Ye were so sweet and wild | L |
And distant voices seemed to say | L |
It cannot be They pass away | L |
Other themes demand thy lay | L |
Thou art no more a child | L |
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The land of Song within thee lies | D |
Watered by living springs | D |
The lids of Fancy's sleepless eyes | D |
Are gates unto that Paradise | D |
Holy thoughts like stars arise | D |
Its clouds are angels' wings | D |
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Learn that henceforth thy song shall be | G |
Not mountains capped with snow | C |
Nor forests sounding like the sea | G |
Nor rivers flowing ceaselessly | G |
Where the woodlands bend to see | G |
The bending heavens below | C |
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There is a forest where the din | U |
Of iron branches sounds | D |
A mighty river roara between | B |
And whosoever looks therein | U |
Sees the heavens all black with sin | U |
Sees not ita depths nor bounds | D |
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Athwart the swinging branches cast | L |
Soft rays of sunshine pour | O |
Then comes the fearful wintry blast | L |
Our hopes like withered leaves fall fast | L |
Pallid lips say 'It is past | L |
We can return no more ' | - |
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Look then into thine heart and write | L |
Yes into Life's deep stream | I |
All forms of sorrow and delight | L |
All solemn Voices of the Night | L |
That can soothe thee or affright | L |
Be these henceforth thy theme | I |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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