Day That I Have Loved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECFECGHGH IJIJ KLMLM CGCG| Tenderly day that I have loved I close your eyes | A |
| And smooth your quiet brow and fold your thin dead hands | B |
| The grey veils of the half light deepen colour dies | A |
| I bear you a light burden to the shrouded sands | B |
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| Where lies your waiting boat by wreaths of the sea's making | C |
| Mist garlanded with all grey weeds of the water crowned | D |
| There you'll be laid past fear of sleep or hope of waking | C |
| And over the unmoving sea without a sound | D |
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| Faint hands will row you outward out beyond our sight | E |
| Us with stretched arms and empty eyes on the far gleaming | C |
| And marble sand | F |
| Beyond the shifting cold twilight | E |
| Further than laughter goes or tears further than dreaming | C |
| There'll be no port no dawn lit islands But the drear | G |
| Waste darkening and at length flame ultimate on the deep | H |
| Oh the last fire and you unkissed unfriended there | G |
| Oh the lone way's red ending and we not there to weep | H |
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| We found you pale and quiet and strangely crowned with flowers | I |
| Lovely and secret as a child You came with us | J |
| Came happily hand in hand with the young dancing hours | I |
| High on the downs at dawn Void now and tenebrous | J |
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| The grey sands curve before me | K |
| From the inland meadows | L |
| Fragrant of June and clover floats the dark and fills | M |
| The hollow sea's dead face with little creeping shadows | L |
| And the white silence brims the hollow of the hills | M |
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| Close in the nest is folded every weary wing | C |
| Hushed all the joyful voices and we who held you dear | G |
| Eastward we turn and homeward alone remembering | C |
| Day that I loved day that I loved the Night is here | G |
Rupert Brooke
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