The Flute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDAAAAAEEFFGGAA AAAAHHIIJJAKKLLIt 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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