Nightfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHJ| Sweet after labour soft and whispering night | A |
| Blows on dark fields and fragrant country here | B |
| Here there is sleep to weary limbs delight | A |
| The world is far away the stars are near | C |
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| The world is far away but there I know | D |
| Night comes to few unanxious happy eyes | E |
| And cities with their restless streets aglow | D |
| Lamps upon lamps outface the enkindled skies | E |
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| London lies there an endless fiery maze | F |
| Thronged with her millions sleepless vast alone | G |
| The stars are pale above her where her gaze | F |
| Lights the wide heavens and makes the night her own | G |
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| There the hot wind blows over no dark fields | H |
| Brief hard won rest despotic labours give | I |
| Sleep to how many spent out spirits yields | H |
| Life's only sweetness to forget they live | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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