Night Coming Into A Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD E EC FBFB GCGC| Roses red and white | A |
| Every rose is hanging her head | B |
| Silently comes the lady Night | A |
| Only the flowers can hear her tread | B |
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| All day long the birds have been calling | C |
| Calling shrill and sweet | D |
| They are still when she comes with her long robe falling | C |
| Falling down to her feet | D |
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| The thrush has sung to his mate | E |
| ' She is coming hush she is coming ' | - |
| She is lifting the latch at the gate | E |
| And the bees have ceased from their humming | C |
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| I cannot see her face as she passes | F |
| Through my garden of white and red | B |
| But I know she has walked where the daisies and grasses | F |
| Are curtseying after her tread | B |
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| She has passed me by with a rustle and sweep | G |
| Of her robe as she passed I heard it sweeping | C |
| And all my red roses have fallen asleep | G |
| And all my white roses are sleeping | C |
Lord Alfred Douglas
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