At End Of A Holiday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGHGDIDIDJDK ALACLMLMNONCDADADPDP AQAQ| 'LEAVES and brambles from hill and hollow | A |
| Come and gather ' the children cried | B |
| 'The sun goes down and the night will follow | A |
| A moonless night on the dark hillside ' | C |
| All ways they wandered the dry twigs snapping | D |
| With laugh and prattle and song between | E |
| Down on the rocks the waves were lapping | D |
| The long swell swaying the seaweed green | E |
| And she stood by in her white sun bonnet | F |
| All lace and snow on her tressy hair | G |
| With a gold king beetle dreaming on it | H |
| A lotus dream in the lustrous air | G |
| Was it love or a dove in the tall tree cooing | D |
| Was it love or a dove that loitered nigh | I |
| The eventide is the hour for wooing | D |
| But I was silent and she was shy | I |
| Then suddenly rose a far faint humming | D |
| A growing noise in the evening hush | J |
| And the prattle of children homeward coming | D |
| Laden with spoil of the gold brown bush | K |
| 'Leaves and brambles from hill and hollow | A |
| The way was tangled and tangles tire | L |
| The sun goes down and the night will follow | A |
| Now down on your knees and make us a fire ' | C |
| The leaves were wet how a storm may hinder | L |
| The brambles damp with a shower at noon | M |
| She bent to help and my heart of tinder | L |
| Ah why did it burst to flame so soon | M |
| 'Dry leaves dry leaves from the twilight forest | N |
| Or bark that is sheltered or hidden ferns | O |
| Dry leaves dry leaves ' the children chorused | N |
| 'The drier the leaf the redder it burns ' | C |
| The fire leapt up with a sudden glancing | D |
| The first flame flushing her hands of snow | A |
| And round about went the children dancing | D |
| Their faces lit by the rosy glow | A |
| That fire has gone beyond all returning | D |
| For wild winds scatter and chill rains drench | P |
| All dust the leaves but a fire is burning | D |
| That wind or water shall never quench | P |
| Ah leaves and brambles from hill and hollow | A |
| And two together and violet eyes | Q |
| The sun goes down and love must follow | A |
| A quenchless fire and a flame that dies | Q |
Roderic Quinn
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