Midsummer Vigil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEFDEF GHIGHI JKLJML NOIPOQ RRRRRR STUVTU QWXQWY ZA2RB2C2R D2EE2D2EE2 F2G2H2F2G2H2 I2J2GI2J2G RRK2RRK2 I2L2M2I2L2M2 I2N2I2I2N2I2| Night smiles on me with her stars | A |
| Mystic pure enchanted lone | B |
| Light that only heaven discloses | C |
| Is in heaven that no cloud mars | A |
| Here through murmuring darkness blown | B |
| Comes the scent of unseen roses | C |
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| Now the world is all asleep | D |
| Drowsy man dull rest is taking | E |
| I with whispering trees apart | F |
| My deserted vigil keep | D |
| Light leaves in the light wind shaking | E |
| Echo back my beating heart | F |
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| And the garden's perfumes thrill me | G |
| Like a touch or whispered name | H |
| Heliotrope and lavender | I |
| Slumber odoured lilies fill me | G |
| With their breath like subtlest flame | H |
| Vague desire and yearning stir | I |
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| Shadowy elms above me crowned | J |
| With mysterious foliage dim | K |
| Mid the stars against the skies | L |
| Hidden lawn and alley bound | J |
| Full of voices full of dream | M |
| Fragrant breathings and long sighs | L |
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| Wishes that with eager tongues | N |
| Strive among the soft blown boughs | O |
| Each an amorous messenger | I |
| Dreams that glide in noiseless throngs | P |
| Wing d flight of earnest vows | O |
| Listening with hushed breath I hear | Q |
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| This intoxicating sweetness | R |
| That the perfumed air exhales | R |
| Stir of thoughts and dear desires | R |
| Joys that faint with their own fleetness | R |
| Passion that for utterance fails | R |
| Whither burns it where aspires | R |
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| 'Tis for her whose worshipped hand | S |
| Holds my heart for life for death | T |
| Ah could she could she but come | U |
| Hither where Love's witching wand | V |
| Holds the midnight's thoughtful breath | T |
| While the stars are glittering dumb | U |
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| Come that into that sweet ear | Q |
| I might pour what until now | W |
| Never heart brought tongue to tell | X |
| Mistress ne'er had bliss to hear | Q |
| Lover with his hundredth vow | W |
| Vainly sought to syllable | Y |
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| Pale with transport when I take | Z |
| 'Twixt my hands her face and look | A2 |
| Deep into her brimming eyes | R |
| Passionately fain to speak | B2 |
| How my trembling murmurs mock | C2 |
| Those unuttered ecstacies | R |
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| And when cheek to cheek is prest | D2 |
| And the pulse of her pure being | E |
| Throbs from her veins into mine | E2 |
| Love in torment from my breast | D2 |
| Cries athirst for language freeing | E |
| In sweet speech his pangs divine | E2 |
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| How should language weak and vain | F2 |
| Bear the burden of such joy | G2 |
| How should words the meaning reach | H2 |
| Of that charm's ecstatic pain | F2 |
| Charm which words would but destroy | G2 |
| Of devotion beyond speech | H2 |
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| But to night dear Love is kind | I2 |
| And those jealous bonds that mesh | J2 |
| The heart's tongue tied truth sets free | G |
| Undivided unconfined | I2 |
| By those walls of human flesh | J2 |
| Look my heart is bared to thee | G |
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| Seeing thou shalt want not eyes | R |
| Hearing thou shalt need not ears | R |
| Purged our spirits shall burn through | K2 |
| Tedious day's necessities | R |
| O to cast off doubts and fears | R |
| To touch truth and feel it true | K2 |
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| Thou my tender thought shalt find | I2 |
| Ever like a quick eyed slave | L2 |
| Watching for thy wish unspoken | M2 |
| In my inmost treasury shrined | I2 |
| Looks and tones thy spirit gave | L2 |
| Faith's for ever cherished token | M2 |
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| Come O come where'er thou art | I2 |
| Ere this rich hour past reprieve | N2 |
| In the garish daylight die | I2 |
| Hear me Sweet and my heart's heart | I2 |
| My soul's soul believe receive | N2 |
| Poured into a single sigh | I2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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