Dusk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| The frightened herds of clouds across the sky | A |
| Trample the sunshine down and chase the day | B |
| Into the dusky forest lands of gray | B |
| And sombre twilight Far and faint and high | A |
| The wild goose trails his harrow with a cry | A |
| Sad as the wail of some poor castaway | B |
| Who sees a vessel drifting far astray | B |
| Of his last hope and lays him down to die | A |
| The children riotous from school grow bold | C |
| And quarrel with the wind whose angry gust | D |
| Plucks off the summer hat and flaps the fold | C |
| Of many a crimson cloak and twirls the dust | D |
| In spiral shapes grotesque and dims the gold | C |
| Of gleaming tresses with the blur of rust | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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