Merely Suburban Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCECFCDGDDCHHC DIJKDD CCLKCADKCMKNOPQRASDD TDSC| Dry light reverberates colour withdrawing | A |
| Into a sky so white sight cannot follow it | B |
| While in the shadows cast rich hues intenser | C |
| Far than in light spaces offer me gladness | D |
| Sun reigns triumphantly thinning all vapour | C |
| Into translucency through which the foliage | E |
| Bears out in sparkles of full golden greenery | C |
| O'er this short dashes of keen grey green masses lie | F |
| Even the cooler tints pitched in this higher key | C |
| Purpling and greening greys are fierce as fires | D |
| All the vast universe lives in one beautiful | G |
| Summer made lambent light offering gladness | D |
| Who can accept of it Hearts where no echo rings | D |
| Wildly recalling deeds done by old Destiny | C |
| Deeds of finality darkening the spirit | H |
| Rousing the echoes of thought to reverberate | H |
| Ever and ever Alas evermore | C |
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| Once in a burning day's brightness like this | D |
| Sad I awaited the quenching forever of | I |
| Light that had mantled and flickered and ebbed out | J |
| Unto some twilight of hope and of reason | K |
| Out of his own unto future time's darkness | D |
| Wistfully gazed he as one who unhelped floats | D |
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| Swept by a current past land out to sea | C |
| He started alertly with laughter and mockery | C |
| Loud at its height with the rapture of contest | L |
| For him the light focusses now to one vision | K |
| Shot through its beautiful heart with black terror | C |
| Terror from weakness remorse and leave taking | A |
| To his scared eye the day's bitter brightness | D |
| Circles about the dark doorway set open | K |
| Awaiting his entrance ere shut to for ever | C |
| Ever he harkens to voices behind him | M |
| Dolefully hinting defect and omission | K |
| Cruelly shouting This this was the true path | N |
| Here greatness lay by humility guarded | O |
| She whom thou soughtest through mountains of pride | P |
| What avails tenderness now so belated | Q |
| What gaining love with no deed as its child | R |
| Whitening intenselier ever to setting | A |
| Down sank the last sun save one he should gaze on | S |
| In the next dawning with dull apprehensiveness | D |
| Groped he mid recent and older remembrance | D |
| Mingled with mad vain desires for a helping hand | T |
| Then off reeled his soul from my speechless adieus | D |
| Once more the whole blaze triumphed through the welkin | S |
| Bitter in brightness in memory for ever | C |
Thomas Runciman
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