Midsummer Night, Not Dark, Not Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGBIBI JFKFDEDE| Midsummer night not dark not light | A |
| Dusk all the scented air | B |
| I'll e'en go forth to one I love | C |
| And learn how he doth fare | B |
| O the ring the ring my dear for me | D |
| The ring was a world too fine | E |
| I wish it had sunk in a forty fathom sea | D |
| Or ever thou mad'st it mine | E |
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| Soft falls the dew stars tremble through | F |
| Where lone he sits apart | G |
| Would I might steal his grief away | H |
| To hide in mine own heart | G |
| Would would 'twere shut in yon blossom fair | B |
| The sorrow that bows thy head | I |
| Then I would gather it to thee unaware | B |
| And break my heart in thy stead | I |
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| That charm d flower far from thy bower | J |
| I'd bear the long hours through | F |
| Thou should'st forget and my sad breast | K |
| The sorrows twain should rue | F |
| O sad flower O sad sad ring to me | D |
| The ring was a world too fine | E |
| And would it had sunk in a forty fathom sea | D |
| Ere the morn that made it mine | E |
Jean Ingelow
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