At Nightfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG IJAJ AEKE LMAM| The dark is coming o'er the world my playmate | A |
| And the fields where poplars stand are very still | B |
| All our groves of green delight have been invaded | C |
| There are voices quite unknown upon the hill | B |
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| The wind has grown too weary for a comrade | D |
| It is keening in the rushes spent and low | E |
| Let us join our hands and hasten very softly | F |
| To the little olden friendly path we know | E |
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| The stars are laughing at us O my playmate | A |
| Very very far away in lonely skies | G |
| The trees that were our friends are strangers to us | H |
| And the fern is full of whispers and of sighs | G |
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| The sounds we hear are not what we may share in | I |
| We may not linger where the white moths roam | J |
| We must hasten yet more swiftly little playmate | A |
| To the house among the pines that is our home | J |
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| The dark is creeping closer yet my playmate | A |
| And the woods seem crowding nearer as we go | E |
| Oh how very very bold have grown the shadows | K |
| They may touch us as they flutter to and fro | E |
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| The silence is too dreadful for our laughter | L |
| The night is very full of strange alarms | M |
| But it cannot hurt us now O little playmate | A |
| One more step and we are safe in mother's arms | M |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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