Katharine Lee Bates

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The Perfect Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGHGEIEIJKLK ECEC

GOD made a day of blue and goldA
Sweet as a violetB
As merry as a marigoldA
It may be shining yetC
In some blest vale some dreamy dellD
Among the heavenly hillsE
Where here and there the asphodelD
Is flecked by daffodilsE
And gentians flowers that twinkled onF
The fields our childhood knewG
Too lovely for oblivionH
Fed with immortal dewG
That summer day all murmurousE
With laughters of old mirthI
How tenderly 'twould comfort usE
Still homesick for the earthI
With what dear touch 'twould fold us inJ
As to a mother's kneeK
From those strange spaces crystallineL
Of vast eternityK
A day God saw with smiling eyesE
The summer's coronetC
In His far cycles of surpriseE
It may be shining yetC

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