Prelude To "the Songs Of Twilight." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD AEAE FAFA GHGH AAAA IJIJ KLKL HMHM NANA OPOP Q| De quel non te nommer | A |
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| PRELUDE a Oct | B |
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| How shall I note thee line of troubled years | C |
| Which mark existence in our little span | D |
| One constant twilight in the heaven appears | C |
| One constant twilight in the mind of man | D |
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| Creed hope anticipation and despair | A |
| Are but a mingling as of day and night | E |
| The globe surrounded by deceptive air | A |
| Is all enveloped in the same half light | E |
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| And voice is deadened by the evening breeze | F |
| The shepherd's song or maiden's in her bower | A |
| Mix with the rustling of the neighboring trees | F |
| Within whose foliage is lulled the power | A |
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| Yet all unites The winding path that leads | G |
| Thro' fields where verdure meets the trav'ller's eye | H |
| The river's margin blurred with wavy reeds | G |
| The muffled anthem echoing to the sky | H |
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| The ivy smothering the arm d tower | A |
| The dying wind that mocks the pilot's ear | A |
| The lordly equipage at midnight hour | A |
| Draws into danger in a fog the peer | A |
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| The votaries of Satan or of Jove | I |
| The wretched mendicant absorbed in woe | J |
| The din of multitudes that onward move | I |
| The voice of conscience in the heart below | J |
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| The waves which Thou O Lord alone canst still | K |
| Th' elastic air the streamlet on its way | L |
| And all that man projects or sovereigns will | K |
| Or things inanimate might seem to say | L |
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| The strain of gondolier slow streaming by | H |
| The lively barks that o'er the waters bound | M |
| The trees that shake their foliage to the sky | H |
| The wailing voice that fills the cots around | M |
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| And man who studies with an aching heart | N |
| For now when smiles are rarely deemed sincere | A |
| In vain the sceptic bids his doubts depart | N |
| Those doubts at length will arguments appear | A |
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| Hence reader know the subject of my song | O |
| A mystic age resembling twilight gloom | P |
| Wherein we smile at birth or bear along | O |
| With noiseless steps a victim to the tomb | P |
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| G W M REYNOLDS | Q |
Victor-marie Hugo
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