A Grey Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACADADEFEFGHGH IJIJJIJIKLKLEMNNIIII EAEAOIOI| THE long still day is ending | A |
| In hollow and on height | B |
| The lighthouse seaward sending | A |
| White rays of steady light | B |
| A little cloud is leading | A |
| A great cloud west by north | C |
| Woe waits on ships unheeding | A |
| That blindly venture forth | C |
| All day the sea dull heaving | A |
| Moaned low like one who ails | D |
| While spectre hands were weaving | A |
| A veil o'er distant sails | D |
| All day with drooping feather | E |
| And wings devoid of gleam | F |
| The sea birds grouped together | E |
| Forebore to wheel and scream | F |
| Salt arms and river reaches | G |
| Were glazed and leaden hued | H |
| And haunting sodden beaches | G |
| Went grey haired Solitude | H |
| The dead leaves in the forest | I |
| Sank earthward all aswoon | J |
| The green marsh frogs that chorused | I |
| Had ta'en a sadder tune | J |
| Lost loves and sins long hidden | J |
| Through some unguarded gate | I |
| Entered the soul unbidden | J |
| And made men desolate | I |
| And fears beset the fearless | K |
| And laughs were stayed to sigh | L |
| And eyes long dry and tearless | K |
| Grew moist and none knew why | L |
| Gleamed red the covered ember | E |
| Beneath its ashen grey | M |
| And some said 'I remember ' | N |
| And some ' 'Twas such a day ' | N |
| And all were lonely hearted | I |
| Sight inward set and blurred | I |
| At touch or tone they started | I |
| And groped for fitting word | I |
| Down cast in weeds went Nature | E |
| Stilling man's mirth and song | A |
| And mourning in each creature | E |
| A grave and ancient wrong | A |
| Light fades on hill and hollow | O |
| Night falls and close behind | I |
| Storm rage and Sea wrath follow | O |
| With wild cries on the wind | I |
Roderic Quinn
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