The Flute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDAAAAAEEFFGGAA AAAAHHIIJJAKKLL

It was a night of smell and dewA
When very old things seemed how newA
When speech was softest in the stillB
Air that loitered down the hillB
When the lime's sweetness could but creepC
Like music to slow ears of sleepC
When far below the lapping seaD
Lisped but of tired tranquillityA
No 'twas a night that seemed almostA
Of real night the little ghostA
As though a painter painted itA
Out of the shallows of his witA
The easy air the whispered treesE
Faint prattle of strait distant seasE
Pettiness all but hark harkF
Large and rich in the narrow darkF
Music rose Was music neverG
Braver in her pure endeavourG
Against the meanness of the worldA
Her purple banner she unfurledA
Of stars and suns upon the nightA
Amazed with the strange living lightA
The notes rose where the dark trees kneltA
Their fiery joy made stillness meltA
As flame in woods the low boughs burnsH
Sere leaves dry bushes flame shaped fernsH
The notes rose as great birds that riseI
Majestically in lofty skiesI
And in white clouds are lost and thenJ
Briefly they hushed and woke againJ
RenewedA
Slowly silence cameK
As smoke after sinking flameK
That spreads and thins across the skyL
When day pales before it dieL

John Frederick Freeman



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