An April Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDAA EFGEHHEE IJJIKKII LMMLNNOLLII LMMLNNOLL| All night a slow soft rain | A |
| A shadowy stranger from a cloudy land | B |
| Sighing and sobbing with unsteady hand | B |
| Beat at the lattice ceased and beat again | C |
| And fled like some wild startled thing pursued | D |
| By demons of the night and solitude | D |
| Returning ever wistful timid fain | A |
| The intermittent rain | A |
| - | |
| And still the sad hours crept | E |
| Within uncounted the while hopes and fears | F |
| Swayed our full hearts and overflowed in tears | G |
| That fell in silence as she waked or slept | E |
| Still drawing nearer to that unknown shore | H |
| Whence foot of mortal cometh nevermore | H |
| And still the rain was as a pulse that kept | E |
| Time as the slow hours crept | E |
| - | |
| The plummet of the night | I |
| Sank through the hollow dark that closed us round | J |
| A lamp lit globe of space outside the sound | J |
| Of rain drops falling from abysmal height | I |
| To vast mysterious depths rose faint and far | K |
| Like a dull muffled echo from some star | K |
| Swung like our own an orb of tears and light | I |
| In the unheeding night | I |
| - | |
| But when the April dawn | L |
| Touched the closed lattice softly and a bird | M |
| Too early wakened from its sleep was stirred | M |
| And trilled a sudden note broke off withdrawn | L |
| She heard and woke All silently she laid | N |
| Her gentle hands in ours with such a look as made | N |
| A rainbow of tears it fell upon | O |
| Caught from another and a heavenlier dawn | L |
| Fixed trembled and was gone | L |
| Swung like our own an orb of tears and light | I |
| In the unheeding night | I |
| - | |
| But when the April dawn | L |
| Touched the closed lattice softly and a bird | M |
| Too early wakened from its sleep was stirred | M |
| And trilled a sudden note broke off withdrawn | L |
| She heard and woke All silently she laid | N |
| Her gentle hands in ours with such a look as made | N |
| A rainbow of tears it fell upon | O |
| Caught from another and a heavenlier dawn | L |
| Fixed trembled and was gone | L |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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