In The Twilight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE FGCH CIDI CJKJ CCCC LMNM CCCC LHCO CPQP CCCC JCRC CBCB CSCT CUVU WXVX YZCZ| In the twilight gray and shadowy | A |
| Deepening o'er the sunset's glow | B |
| Softly through the mystic dimness | C |
| Flitting shadows come and go | B |
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| As my thoughts in listless wandering | D |
| With these phantom shadows fly | E |
| Meseems they wear the forms of faces | C |
| Faces loved in days gone by | E |
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| One by one I recognize them | F |
| As they silent gather near | G |
| Some are loving childish faces | C |
| Knowing naught of grief or care | H |
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| Some are blooming youthful faces | C |
| Victory confident to win | I |
| Some are from the contest shrinking | D |
| Wearied with the strife and din | I |
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| Some are aged wrinkled faces | C |
| Time life's sands has nearly run | J |
| Not a leaflet spared of Springtime | K |
| Not a furrow left undone | J |
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| Other faces sweet sad faces | C |
| Wafted o'er the Lethean sea | C |
| Radiant smile in twilight shadows | C |
| But they came not back to me | C |
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| In the twilight dreamy twilight | L |
| When the sultry day is gone | M |
| Quietly o'er vale and hillside | N |
| Tenderly as blush of dawn | M |
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| Come the timid evening breezes | C |
| Sighing through the Summer leaves | C |
| Transient as thought's pencil paintings | C |
| Sweet as weft that fancy weaves | C |
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| And as shadows in the twilight | L |
| Shapeful forms of faces wear | H |
| So these dainty light winged zephyrs | C |
| To my hearing voices are | O |
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| Voices whose sad intonations | C |
| Seemingly as flit they past | P |
| Bring to memory hopes long shattered | Q |
| Blissful dreams too bright to last | P |
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| Voices merry laughing voices | C |
| Fondly loved in other years | C |
| Mournfully are whispering to me | C |
| That their mirth was drowned in tears | C |
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| Telling of a fairer fortune | J |
| Far away 'neath tropic skies | C |
| Telling of a broken circle | R |
| Scattered friends and severed ties | C |
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| Other kindly loving voices | C |
| Winning in the long ago | B |
| Tell me now as then they told me | C |
| Thou canst live for weal or woe | B |
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| Are these weird and mystic voices | C |
| But creations of the brain | S |
| Only in illusive fancy | C |
| Must I hear their tones again | T |
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| Would some magic power lend me | C |
| Aid to stay the witching tone | U |
| Art to pain the beauteous picture | V |
| Ere its impress swift has flown | U |
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| While I dreamed the day has faded | W |
| Stars are shining overhead | X |
| Evening winds have ceased to whisper | V |
| Twilight's shadows all have fled | X |
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| Thus too oft our life work seemeth | Y |
| And we when disowned its sway | Z |
| Find we are pursuing phantoms | C |
| Shadows in the twilight gray | Z |
Madge Morris Wagner
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