The Flute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDAAAAAEEFFGGAA AAAAHHIIJJAKKLL| It was a night of smell and dew | A |
| When very old things seemed how new | A |
| When speech was softest in the still | B |
| Air that loitered down the hill | B |
| When the lime's sweetness could but creep | C |
| Like music to slow ears of sleep | C |
| When far below the lapping sea | D |
| Lisped but of tired tranquillity | A |
| No 'twas a night that seemed almost | A |
| Of real night the little ghost | A |
| As though a painter painted it | A |
| Out of the shallows of his wit | A |
| The easy air the whispered trees | E |
| Faint prattle of strait distant seas | E |
| Pettiness all but hark hark | F |
| Large and rich in the narrow dark | F |
| Music rose Was music never | G |
| Braver in her pure endeavour | G |
| Against the meanness of the world | A |
| Her purple banner she unfurled | A |
| Of stars and suns upon the night | A |
| Amazed with the strange living light | A |
| The notes rose where the dark trees knelt | A |
| Their fiery joy made stillness melt | A |
| As flame in woods the low boughs burns | H |
| Sere leaves dry bushes flame shaped ferns | H |
| The notes rose as great birds that rise | I |
| Majestically in lofty skies | I |
| And in white clouds are lost and then | J |
| Briefly they hushed and woke again | J |
| Renewed | A |
| Slowly silence came | K |
| As smoke after sinking flame | K |
| That spreads and thins across the sky | L |
| When day pales before it die | L |
John Frederick Freeman
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