The Long Lane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEGAF BHIJBK LMLMEENNMMOPPO EEQQRRNNGGOOPPOAll through the summer night down the long lane in flower | A |
The moon white lane | B |
All through the summer night dim as a shower | A |
Glimmer and fade the Twain | B |
Over the cricket hosts throbbing the hour by hour | A |
Young voices bloom and wane | B |
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Down the long lane they go and past one window pale | C |
With visions silver blurred | D |
Stirring the heart that waits the eyes that fail | C |
After a spring deferred | D |
Query and hush and Ah dim through a moon lit veil | C |
The same one word | D |
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Down the long lane entwined with all the fragrance there | E |
The lane in flower somehow | F |
With youth and plighted hands and star strewn air | E |
And muted 'Thee' and 'Thou' | G |
All the wild bloom and reach of dreams that never were | A |
Never to be now | F |
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So in the throbbing dark where ebbs the old refrain | B |
A starved heart hears | H |
And silver bright and silver blurred again | I |
With moonlight and with tears | J |
All the long night they go down the long summer lane | B |
The long long years | K |
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Ah but Belov d men may do | L |
All things to music march and die | M |
And wear the longest vigil through | L |
And say good by | M |
All things to music Ah but where | E |
Peace never falls upon the air | E |
These city ways of dark and din | N |
Where greed has shut and barred them in | N |
And thundering swart against the sky | M |
That whirlwind never to go by | M |
Of tracks and wheels that overhead | O |
Beat back the senses with their roar | P |
And menace of undying war | P |
War war for daily bread | O |
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All things to silence Ah but where | E |
Men dwell not but must make a lair | E |
And Sorrow may not sit alone | Q |
Nor Love hear music of its own | Q |
And Thought that strives to breast that sea | R |
Must struggle even for memory | R |
Day long night long besieging din | N |
To thrust all pain the deeper in | N |
And drown the flutter of first breath | G |
And batter at the doors of Death | G |
To lull their dearest watch their dead | O |
While the long thunders overhead | O |
Gather and break for evermore | P |
Eternal tides eternal War | P |
War war Bread bread | O |
Josephine Preston Peabody
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