An Evening Revery (from An Unfinished Poem) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UCVWXYIZGA2UB2C2WD2E 2XF2 G2FC2UH2I2J2K2XF2L2M 2N2MO2P2Q2B2N2R2S2T2 U2V2W2X2KFY2The summer day is closed the sun is set | A |
Well they have done their office those bright hours | B |
The latest of whose train goes softly out | C |
In the red West The green blade of the ground | D |
Has risen and herds have cropped it the young twig | E |
Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun | F |
Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown | G |
And withered seeds have fallen upon the soil | H |
From bursting cells and in their graves await | I |
Their resurrection Insects from the pools | J |
Have filled the air awhile with humming wings | K |
That now are still for ever painted moths | L |
Have wandered the blue sky and died again | M |
The mother bird hath broken for her brood | N |
Their prison shell or shoved them from the nest | O |
Plumed for their earliest flight In bright alcoves | P |
In woodland cottages with barky walls | Q |
In noisome cells of the tumultuous town | R |
Mothers have clasped with joy the new born babe | S |
Graves by the lonely forest by the shore | T |
Of rivers and of ocean by the ways | U |
Of the thronged city have been hollowed out | C |
And filled and closed This day hath parted friends | V |
That ne'er before were parted it hath knit | W |
New friendships it hath seen the maiden plight | X |
Her faith and trust her peace to him who long | Y |
Had wooed and it hath heard from lips which late | I |
Were eloquent of love the first harsh word | Z |
That told the wedded one her peace was flown | G |
Farewell to the sweet sunshine One glad day | A2 |
Is added now to Childhood's merry days | U |
And one calm day to those of quiet Age | B2 |
Still the fleet hours run on and as I lean | C2 |
Amid the thickening darkness lamps are lit | W |
By those who watch the dead and those who twine | D2 |
Flowers for the bride The mother from the eyes | E2 |
Of her sick infant shades the painful light | X |
And sadly listens to his quick drawn breath | F2 |
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Oh thou great Movement of the Universe | G2 |
Or Change or Flight of Time for ye are one | F |
That bearest silently this visible scene | C2 |
Into night's shadow and the streaming rays | U |
Of starlight whither art thou bearing me | H2 |
I feel the mighty current sweep me on | I2 |
Yet know not whither Man foretells afar | J2 |
The courses of the stars the very hour | K2 |
He knows when they shall darken or grow bright | X |
Yet doth the eclipse of Sorrow and of Death | F2 |
Come unforewarned Who next of those I love | L2 |
Shall pass from life or sadder yet shall fall | M2 |
From virtue Strife with foes or bitterer strife | N2 |
With friends or shame and general scorn of men | M |
Which who can bear or the fierce rack of pain | O2 |
Lie they within my path Or shall the years | P2 |
Push me with soft and inoffensive pace | Q2 |
Into the stilly twilight of my age | B2 |
Or do the portals of another life | N2 |
Even now while I am glorying in my strength | R2 |
Impend around me Oh beyond that bourne | S2 |
In the vast cycle of being which begins | T2 |
At that broad threshold with what fairer forms | U2 |
Shall the great law of change and progress clothe | V2 |
Its workings Gently so have good men taught | W2 |
Gently and without grief the old shall glide | X2 |
Into the new the eternal flow of things | K |
Like a bright river of the fields of heaven | F |
Shall journey onward in perpetual peace | Y2 |
William Cullen Bryant
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