The Long Lane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEGAF BHIJBK LMLMEENNMMOPPO EEQQRRNNGGOOPPO| All 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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