Nightfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEC AFDGFD HIJKLJ A MEIMII NNONNP BNBDNB A ININBI NNADBA DMQNMQ A MDIINI NDBNNB RMBSMBI | 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 Freeman
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