Evening. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEFFCGCGHHIJ IJKKILILMM| The light is drawn out of the leaves and grass | A |
| And the sweet flowers grow pale in the gray air | B |
| As if their beauty's essence e'en did pass | A |
| With the departing light from all things fair | B |
| As the sap in the trees when summer's fled | C |
| Draws back to the earth leaving the leaves dead | C |
| The sky becomes a cloud the hills a shade | D |
| As the mysterious darkness fills the sphere | E |
| A monstrous elf whose tentacles are laid | D |
| In silence upon all things far and near | E |
| Now the bats flit about the mothy damp | F |
| In which the spiders weave their airy camp | F |
| I too could fill as 'twere a dreamy bed | C |
| Under the green leaves in the darkness now | G |
| And watch the evening planet overhead | C |
| Like a dewdrop upon the airy bough | G |
| Of heaven tremble till my soul too grew | H |
| Like liquid light in water shining through | H |
| And I can feel that which the dead inherit | I |
| Peace and the power to forego the pain | J |
| That like a vulture on the human spirit | I |
| Draws its fine essence from the fading brain | J |
| Till every sense contracts and the slow breath | K |
| Oozes away in the desire of death | K |
| So from me slips the day's disquietude | I |
| And I am made one with the night as those | L |
| Who pass from thought into a faery mood | I |
| On Lethe's wharf whenas old Charon goes | L |
| Into the dusk of that eternal eve | M |
| Where all must go when the earth light they leave | M |
Robert Crawford
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