A Prelude At Evening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEEEFGFH IJIJKLML NONOPQPR STSTBUBU VWVWXYZY A2AA2AB2WB2W| My spirit was like the lonely air | A |
| Before night | B |
| Like hovering cloud that's melted there | A |
| In the late light | B |
| When slow the vast earth shadows reach | C |
| To the last flush | D |
| And the wandering silences have each | C |
| Their own hush | D |
| - | |
| Did the green grass about me glimmer | E |
| Or trees tower | E |
| Not softer to my sense nor dimmer | E |
| The obscure power | E |
| Of all the world's wide trouble fought | F |
| In the heart's recess | G |
| My heart was solitude my thought | F |
| Emptiness | H |
| - | |
| But through my spirit that seemed unfilled | I |
| Alone to float | J |
| A sudden dewy sweetness thrilled | I |
| A low note | J |
| And then a loud note rippling full | K |
| To a still pause | L |
| The liquid silence was a pool | M |
| That a breeze flaws | L |
| - | |
| It throbbed again how lonely clear | N |
| A song that seemed | O |
| Sprung beyond memory or fear | N |
| A voice dreamed | O |
| In a land that no man ever found | P |
| And who knows | Q |
| What shook those lingering drops of sound | P |
| At the rich close | R |
| - | |
| Ah where were you passion and grief | S |
| Of the world's wrong | T |
| What had you to do with a trembling leaf | S |
| And a bird's song | T |
| And spaces calm with coming of night | B |
| And the fresh gloom | U |
| Of shadowy trees and smelt delight | B |
| Of hidden bloom | U |
| - | |
| Yet O in me that song had part | V |
| Because of you | W |
| It drank of the very blood of the heart | V |
| It quivered through | W |
| Because of the tears of joy and the cost | X |
| Of a joy's breath | Y |
| Measureless thoughts of a dearness lost | Z |
| Hope and death | Y |
| - | |
| Strangeness of longing beauty pain | A2 |
| I was aware | A |
| Of all your secret soft as rain | A2 |
| In the dim air | A |
| For Life it was that sang aloud | B2 |
| To the lone dew | W |
| Brave in the night and sweet in the cloud | B2 |
| My heart knew | W |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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