Nightfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGDD HIHIJAJAJFF| The last light fails that shallow pool of day | A |
| The coursers of the dark stamp down to drink | B |
| Arch their wild necks lift their wild heads and neigh | C |
| Their drivers gathering at the water brink | B |
| With eyes ashine from out their clustering hair | D |
| Utter their hollow speech or gaze afar | E |
| Rapt in irradiant reverie to where | D |
| Languishes lost in light the evening star | E |
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| Come the wood nymphs to dance within the glooms | F |
| Calling these charioteers with timbrels' din | G |
| Ashen with twilight the dark forest looms | F |
| O'er the nocturnal beasts that prowl within | G |
| O glory of beauty which the world makes fair | D |
| Pant they their serenading on the air | D |
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| Sound the loud hooves and all abroad the sky | H |
| The lusty charioteers their stations take | I |
| Planet to planet do the sweet Loves fly | H |
| And in the zenith silver music wake | I |
| Cities of men in blindness hidden low | J |
| Fume their faint flames to that arched firmament | A |
| But all the dwellers in the lonely know | J |
| The unearthly are abroad and weary and spent | A |
| With rush extinguished to their dreaming go | J |
| And world and night and star enclustered space | F |
| The glory of beauty are in one enravished face | F |
Walter De La Mare
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