Fragment Ii - Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FF GHIJKLGIKHJM NHHOPCCOQNQRP CPPNRS TSOUUVWWVO XYXZYZA2A2| The day and its delights are done | A |
| So all delights and days expire | B |
| Down in the dim sad West the sun | A |
| Is dying like a dying fire | C |
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| The fiercest lances of his light | D |
| Are spent I watch him droop and die | E |
| Like a great king who falls in fight | D |
| None dared the duel of his eye | E |
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| Living but now his eye is dim | F |
| The eyes of all may stare at him | F |
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| How lovely in his strength at morn | G |
| He orbed along the burning blue | H |
| The blown gold of his flying hair | I |
| Was tangled in green tress d trees | J |
| And netted in the river sand | K |
| In gleaming links of amber clear | L |
| But all his shining locks are shorn | G |
| His brow of its bright crown is bare | I |
| The golden sceptre leaves his hand | K |
| And deeper darker grows the hue | H |
| Of the dim purple draperies | J |
| And cloudy banners round his bier | M |
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| O beautiful rose hearted dawn | N |
| O splendid noon of gold and blue | H |
| Is this wan glimmer all of you | H |
| Where are the blush and bloom ye gave | O |
| To laughing land and smiling sea | P |
| The swift lights that did flash and shiver | C |
| In diamond rain upon the river | C |
| And set a star in each blue wave | O |
| Where are the merry lights and shadows | Q |
| That danced through wood and over lawn | N |
| And flew across the dewy meadows | Q |
| Like white nymphs chased by satyr lovers | R |
| Faded and perished utterly | P |
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| All delicate and all rich colour | C |
| In flower and cloud on lawn and lea | P |
| On butterfly and bird and bee | P |
| A little space and all are gone | N |
| And darkness like a raven hovers | R |
| Above the death bed of the day | S |
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| So when the long last night draws on | T |
| And all the world grows ghastly gray | S |
| We see our beautiful and brave | O |
| Wither and watch with heavy sighs | U |
| The life light dying in their eyes | U |
| The love light slowly fading out | V |
| Leaving no faint hope in their place | W |
| But only on each dear wan face | W |
| The shadow of a weary doubt | V |
| The ashen pallor of the grave | O |
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| O gracious morn and golden noon | X |
| With what fair dreams did ye depart | Y |
| Beloved so well and lost so soon | X |
| I could not fold you to my breast | Z |
| I could not hide you in my heart | Y |
| I saw the watchers in the West | Z |
| Sad shrouded shapes with hands that wring | A2 |
| And phantom fingers beckoning | A2 |
Victor James Daley
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