The Bird In The Valley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEFFE GHHGIIJKLM NOOPDCQRRQ| Above the darkened house the night is spread | A |
| The hidden valley holds | B |
| Vapour and dew and silence in its folds | B |
| And waters sighing on the river bed | A |
| No wandering wind there is | C |
| To swing the star wreaths of the clematis | D |
| Against the stone | E |
| Out of the hanging woods above the shores | F |
| One liquid voice of throbbing crystal pours | F |
| Singing alone | E |
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| A stream of magic through the heart of night | G |
| Its unseen passage cleaves | H |
| Into the darkened room below the eaves | H |
| It falls from out the woods upon the height | G |
| A strain of ecstasy | I |
| Wrought on the confines of eternity | I |
| Glamour and pain | J |
| And echoes gathered from a world of years | K |
| Old phantoms dim like mirage seen through tears | L |
| But young again | M |
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| Peace peace the bird sings on amid the woods | N |
| Peace from the land that is the spirit's goal | O |
| The land that nonce may see but with his soul | O |
| Peace on the darkened house above the floods | P |
| Pale constellations of the clematis | D |
| Hark to that voice of his | C |
| That will not cease | Q |
| Swing low droop low your spray | R |
| Light with your white stars all the shadowed way | R |
| To peace peace | Q |
Violet Jacob
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