A Prelude At Evening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEEEFGFH IJIJKLML NONOPQPR STSTBUBU VWVWXYZY A2AA2AB2WB2WMy 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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