From: An Evening Revery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU VDWXYZJA2HB2VC2D2XE2 F2YG2 H2GD2VI2J2K2L2YG2M2N 2O2NP2Q2R2C2O2S2T2U2 V2W2X2Y2LGZ2| FROM AN UNFINISHED POEM | A |
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| The summer day is closed the sun is set | B |
| Well they have done their office those bright hours | C |
| The latest of whose train goes softly out | D |
| In the red West The green blade of the ground | E |
| Has risen and herds have cropped it the young twig | F |
| Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun | G |
| Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown | H |
| And withered seeds have fallen upon the soil | I |
| From bursting cells and in their graves await | J |
| Their resurrection Insects from the pools | K |
| Have filled the air awhile with humming wings | L |
| That now are still for ever painted moths | M |
| Have wandered the blue sky and died again | N |
| The mother bird hath broken for her brood | O |
| Their prison shell or shoved them from the nest | P |
| Plumed for their earliest flight In bright alcoves | Q |
| In woodland cottages with barky walls | R |
| In noisome cells of the tumultuous town | S |
| Mothers have clasped with joy the new born babe | T |
| Graves by the lonely forest by the shore | U |
| Of rivers and of ocean by the ways | V |
| Of the thronged city have been hollowed out | D |
| And filled and closed This day hath parted friends | W |
| That ne'er before were parted it hath knit | X |
| New friendships it hath seen the maiden plight | Y |
| Her faith and trust her peace to him who long | Z |
| Had wooed and it hath heard from lips which late | J |
| Were eloquent of love the first harsh word | A2 |
| That told the wedded one her peace was flown | H |
| Farewell to the sweet sunshine One glad day | B2 |
| Is added now to Childhood's merry days | V |
| And one calm day to those of quiet Age | C2 |
| Still the fleet hours run on and as I lean | D2 |
| Amid the thickening darkness lamps are lit | X |
| By those who watch the dead and those who twine | E2 |
| Flowers for the bride The mother from the eyes | F2 |
| Of her sick infant shades the painful light | Y |
| And sadly listens to his quick drawn breath | G2 |
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| Oh thou great Movement of the Universe | H2 |
| Or Change or Flight of Time for ye are one | G |
| That bearest silently this visible scene | D2 |
| Into night's shadow and the streaming rays | V |
| Of starlight whither art thou bearing me | I2 |
| I feel the mighty current sweep me on | J2 |
| Yet know not whither Man foretells afar | K2 |
| The courses of the stars the very hour | L2 |
| He knows when they shall darken or grow bright | Y |
| Yet doth the eclipse of Sorrow and of Death | G2 |
| Come unforewarned Who next of those I love | M2 |
| Shall pass from life or sadder yet shall fall | N2 |
| From virtue Strife with foes or bitterer strife | O2 |
| With friends or shame and general scorn of men | N |
| Which who can bear or the fierce rack of pain | P2 |
| Lie they within my path Or shall the years | Q2 |
| Push me with soft and inoffensive pace | R2 |
| Into the stilly twilight of my age | C2 |
| Or do the portals of another life | O2 |
| Even now while I am glorying in my strength | S2 |
| Impend around me Oh beyond that bourne | T2 |
| In the vast cycle of being which begins | U2 |
| At that broad threshold with what fairer forms | V2 |
| Shall the great law of change and progress clothe | W2 |
| Its workings Gently so have good men taught | X2 |
| Gently and without grief the old shall glide | Y2 |
| Into the new the eternal flow of things | L |
| Like a bright river of the fields of heaven | G |
| Shall journey onward in perpetual peace | Z2 |
William Cullen Bryant
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