Day And Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJKKFF| Twilight is falling on lake and on land | A |
| Softly the wavelets steal in to the strand | A |
| Fisher boats floating like sea gulls at rest | B |
| Glow in the lingering light of the west | B |
| Far away vesper bells hallow the air | C |
| Ave Maria the world seems at prayer | C |
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| One more immaculate sunset exposed | D |
| One chapter more of life's history closed | D |
| One more bead told on the chaplet of time | E |
| One further stride in Earth's orbit sublime | E |
| Linked to the measureless chain of the past | F |
| One added day to so many their last | F |
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| Slowly the colors diminish and die | G |
| Slowly the stellar hosts people the sky | G |
| Lost is the light on the fishermen's sails | H |
| Sweet is the exquisite peace that prevails | H |
| Silence and solitude brood o'er the deep | I |
| Ave Maria the world seems to sleep | I |
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| One more magnificent pageant to face | J |
| Numberless systems in infinite space | J |
| Once more our planet in majesty rolls | K |
| On through the darkness its burden of souls | K |
| Linked to the limitless chain of the past | F |
| One added night to so many their last | F |
John L. Stoddard
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