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 flowerA
The moon white laneB
All through the summer night dim as a showerA
Glimmer and fade the TwainB
Over the cricket hosts throbbing the hour by hourA
Young voices bloom and waneB
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Down the long lane they go and past one window paleC
With visions silver blurredD
Stirring the heart that waits the eyes that failC
After a spring deferredD
Query and hush and Ah dim through a moon lit veilC
The same one wordD
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Down the long lane entwined with all the fragrance thereE
The lane in flower somehowF
With youth and plighted hands and star strewn airE
And muted 'Thee' and 'Thou'G
All the wild bloom and reach of dreams that never wereA
Never to be nowF
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So in the throbbing dark where ebbs the old refrainB
A starved heart hearsH
And silver bright and silver blurred againI
With moonlight and with tearsJ
All the long night they go down the long summer laneB
The long long yearsK
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Ah but Belov d men may doL
All things to music march and dieM
And wear the longest vigil throughL
And say good byM
All things to music Ah but whereE
Peace never falls upon the airE
These city ways of dark and dinN
Where greed has shut and barred them inN
And thundering swart against the skyM
That whirlwind never to go byM
Of tracks and wheels that overheadO
Beat back the senses with their roarP
And menace of undying warP
War war for daily breadO
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All things to silence Ah but whereE
Men dwell not but must make a lairE
And Sorrow may not sit aloneQ
Nor Love hear music of its ownQ
And Thought that strives to breast that seaR
Must struggle even for memoryR
Day long night long besieging dinN
To thrust all pain the deeper inN
And drown the flutter of first breathG
And batter at the doors of DeathG
To lull their dearest watch their deadO
While the long thunders overheadO
Gather and break for evermoreP
Eternal tides eternal WarP
War war Bread breadO

Josephine Preston Peabody



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