The Darksome Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFG HIJHKK LMMLHH| Why dost thou darksome Nightingale | A |
| Sing so distractingly and here | B |
| Dawn's preludings prick my ear | B |
| Faint light is creeping up the vale | A |
| While on these dead thy rarer | C |
| Song falls dark night farer | C |
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| Were it not better thou shouldst sing | D |
| Where the drenched lilac droops her plume | E |
| Spreading frail banners of perfume | E |
| Or where the easeless pines enring | D |
| The river lull egrave d village | F |
| Whose lads the lilac pillage | G |
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| Oh if aught songful these hid bones | H |
| Might reach like the slow subtle rain | I |
| Surely the dead had risen again | J |
| And listened white by the white stones | H |
| Back to rich life song charmed | K |
| By ghostly joys alarmed | K |
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| This may not be And yet oh still | L |
| Pour like night dew thy richer speech | M |
| Some late lost youth perchance to reach | M |
| Or unloved girl and stir and fill | L |
| Their passionless cold bosoms | H |
| Under red wallflower blossoms | H |
John Freeman
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