Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCC CCCCCCCC CCCCCCCC D CCCC

With a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streamsA
The full world rolls in a rhythm of praiseB
And the winds are one with the clouds and beamsA
Midsummer days Midsummer daysB
The dusk grows vast in a purple hazeB
While the West from a rapture of sunset rightsC
Faint stars their exquisite lamps upraiseC
Midsummer nights O midsummer nightsC
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The wood's green heart is a nest of dreamsC
The lush grass thickens and springs and swaysC
The rathe wheat rustles the landscape gleamsC
Midsummer days Midsummer daysC
In the stilly fields in the stilly waysC
All secret shadows and mystic lightsC
Late lovers murmur and linger and gazeC
Midsummer nights O midsummer nightsC
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There's a music of bells from the trampling teamsC
Wild skylarks hover the gorses blazeC
The rich ripe rose as with incense steamsC
Midsummer days Midsummer daysC
A soul from the honeysuckle straysC
And the nightingale as from prophet heightsC
Sings to the Earth of her million MaysC
Midsummer nights O midsummer nightsC
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EnvoyD
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And it's O for my dear and the charm that staysC
Midsummer days Midsummer daysC
It's O for my Love and the dark that plightsC
Midsummer nights O midsummer nightsC

William Ernest Henley



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