Ad Cimmerios Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDCB DEFDEF| A Prefatory Sonnet for SANTA LUCIA the Misses Hodgkin's Magazine for the Blind | A |
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| We deeming day light fair and loving well | B |
| Its forms and dyes and all the motley play | C |
| Of lives that win their colour from the day | C |
| Are fain some wonder of it all to tell | B |
| To you that in that elder kingdom dwell | B |
| Of Ancient Night and thus we make assay | D |
| Day to translate to Darkness so to say | C |
| To talk Cimmerian for a little spell | B |
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| Yet as we write may we not doubt lest ye | D |
| Should smile on us as once our fathers smiled | E |
| When we made vaunt of joys they knew no more | F |
| Knowing great dreams young eyes can never see | D |
| Dwelling in peace unguessed of any child | E |
| Will ye smile thus upon our daylight lore | F |
Richard Le Gallienne
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