A Prelude At Evening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEEEFGFH IJIJKLML NONOPQPR STSTBUBU VWVWXYZY A2AA2AB2WB2W

My spirit was like the lonely airA
Before nightB
Like hovering cloud that's melted thereA
In the late lightB
When slow the vast earth shadows reachC
To the last flushD
And the wandering silences have eachC
Their own hushD
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Did the green grass about me glimmerE
Or trees towerE
Not softer to my sense nor dimmerE
The obscure powerE
Of all the world's wide trouble foughtF
In the heart's recessG
My heart was solitude my thoughtF
EmptinessH
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But through my spirit that seemed unfilledI
Alone to floatJ
A sudden dewy sweetness thrilledI
A low noteJ
And then a loud note rippling fullK
To a still pauseL
The liquid silence was a poolM
That a breeze flawsL
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It throbbed again how lonely clearN
A song that seemedO
Sprung beyond memory or fearN
A voice dreamedO
In a land that no man ever foundP
And who knowsQ
What shook those lingering drops of soundP
At the rich closeR
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Ah where were you passion and griefS
Of the world's wrongT
What had you to do with a trembling leafS
And a bird's songT
And spaces calm with coming of nightB
And the fresh gloomU
Of shadowy trees and smelt delightB
Of hidden bloomU
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Yet O in me that song had partV
Because of youW
It drank of the very blood of the heartV
It quivered throughW
Because of the tears of joy and the costX
Of a joy's breathY
Measureless thoughts of a dearness lostZ
Hope and deathY
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Strangeness of longing beauty painA2
I was awareA
Of all your secret soft as rainA2
In the dim airA
For Life it was that sang aloudB2
To the lone dewW
Brave in the night and sweet in the cloudB2
My heart knewW

Robert Laurence Binyon



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