Nightfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEC AFDGFD HIJKLJ A MEIMII NNONNP BNBDNB A ININBI NNADBA DMQNMQ A MDIINI NDBNNB RMBSMB| I | A |
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| Eve goes slowly | B |
| Dancing lightly | B |
| Clad with shadow up the hills | C |
| Birds their singing | D |
| Cease at last and silence | E |
| Falling like fine rain the valley fills | C |
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| Not a bat's cry | A |
| Stirs the stillness | F |
| Perfect as broad water sleeping | D |
| Not a moth's wings | G |
| Flit in the gathering darkness | F |
| Not a mouselike moonray ev'n comes creeping | D |
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| Then a light shines | H |
| From the casement | I |
| Wreathed with jasmine boughs and stars | J |
| Palely golden | K |
| As the late eve's primrose | L |
| Glimmers through green leafy prison bars | J |
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| II | A |
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| Only joy now | M |
| Come in silence | E |
| Come before your look's forgot | I |
| Come and hearken | M |
| While the lonely shadow | I |
| Broadens on the hill and then is not | I |
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| Now the hour is | N |
| Here the place is | N |
| Here am I who saw thee here | O |
| Evening darkens | N |
| All is still and marvellous | N |
| Now the sharp stars in the deep sky peer | P |
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| Come and fill me | B |
| As the wind fills | N |
| Leafy wide boughs of a tree | B |
| Come and windlike | D |
| Cleanse my slumbrous branches | N |
| Come and moonlike bathe the leaves of me | B |
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| III | A |
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| Eve has gone and | I |
| Night follows | N |
| Every bush is now a ghost | I |
| Every tree looms | N |
| Lofty large and sombre | B |
| All day's simple friendliness is lost | I |
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| See the poplars | N |
| Black in blackness | N |
| In all their leaves there is no sigh | A |
| 'Neath that darkling | D |
| Cedar who dare wander | B |
| Now or under the vast oak would lie | A |
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| Till that tingling | D |
| Silence broken | M |
| Every clod renews its breath | Q |
| Birds leaves grasses | N |
| Heave as one then sleep on | M |
| Full of sweeter sleep and unlike death | Q |
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| IV | A |
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| Only joy now | M |
| Come like music | D |
| Falling clear from strings of light | I |
| Come like shadow | I |
| Drinking up late sunrays | N |
| Come like moonrays sweeping the round night | I |
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| See how night is | N |
| Opening flowerlike | D |
| Open so thy bosom to me | B |
| See how earth falls | N |
| Easeful into silence | N |
| Let my moth wing'd thought so fall on thee | B |
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| While the lamp's beam | R |
| Primrose golden | M |
| Now is like a shifting spear | B |
| Borne in battle | S |
| Seen awhile then hidden | M |
| Bold then beaten now long lost and here | B |
John Frederick Freeman
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