A Summer Evening Churchyard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD BEBEFF FGFHII FJFJKE LILIMM| The wind has swept from the wide atmosphere | A |
| Each vapour that obscured the sunset's ray | B |
| And pallid Evening twines its beaming hair | C |
| In duskier braids around the languid eyes of Day | B |
| Silence and Twilight unbeloved of men | D |
| Creep hand in hand from yon obscurest glen | D |
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| They breathe their spells towards the departing day | B |
| Encompassing the earth air stars and sea | E |
| Light sound and motion own the potent sway | B |
| Responding to the charm with its own mystery | E |
| The winds are still or the dry church tower grass | F |
| Knows not their gentle motions as they pass | F |
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| Thou too aereal Pile whose pinnacles | F |
| Point from one shrine like pyramids of fire | G |
| Obeyest in silence their sweet solemn spells | F |
| Clothing in hues of heaven thy dim and distant spire | H |
| Around whose lessening and invisible height | I |
| Gather among the stars the clouds of night | I |
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| The dead are sleeping in their sepulchres | F |
| And mouldering as they sleep a thrilling sound | J |
| Half sense half thought among the darkness stirs | F |
| Breathed from their wormy beds all living things around | J |
| And mingling with the still night and mute sky | K |
| Its awful hush is felt inaudibly | E |
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| Thus solemnized and softened death is mild | L |
| And terrorless as this serenest night | I |
| Here could I hope like some inquiring child | L |
| Sporting on graves that death did hide from human sight | I |
| Sweet secrets or beside its breathless sleep | M |
| That loveliest dreams perpetual watch did keep | M |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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