When The Dark Comes Down Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFDD GGAADD| When the dark comes down oh the wind is on the sea | A |
| With lisping laugh and whimper to the red reef's threnody | B |
| The boats are sailing homeward now across the harbor bar | C |
| With many a jest and many a shout from fishing grounds afar | C |
| So furl your sails and take your rest ye fisher folk so brown | D |
| For task and quest are ended when the dark comes down | D |
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| When the dark comes down oh the landward valleys fill | E |
| Like brimming cups of purple and on every landward hill | E |
| There shines a star of twilight that is watching evermore | F |
| The low dim lighted meadows by the long dim lighted shore | F |
| For there where vagrant daisies weave the grass a silver crown | D |
| The lads and lassies wander when the dark comes down | D |
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| When the dark comes down oh the children fall asleep | G |
| And mothers in the fisher huts their happy vigils keep | G |
| There's music in the song they sing and music on the sea | A |
| The loving lingering echoes of the twilight's litany | A |
| For toil has folded hands to dream and care has ceased to frown | D |
| And every wave's a lyric when the dark comes down | D |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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