End Of A Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKLMNOPQFF QQ| In the long evening of April through the cool light | A |
| Bayle's two sheep dogs sail down the lane like magpies | B |
| for the flock a moment before he appears near the oaks | C |
| a stub of a man rolling as he approaches | D |
| smiling and smiling and his dogs are afraid of him | E |
| we stand among the radiant stones looking out over | F |
| green lucent wheat and earth combed red under bare walnut limbs | G |
| bees hanging late in cowslips and lingering bird cherry | H |
| stumps and brush that were the grove of hazel trees | I |
| where the land turns above the draped slopes and the valley | H |
| filled with its one sunbeam and we exchange a few questions | J |
| as though nothing were different but he has bulldozed the upland | K |
| pastures and the shepherds' huts into piles of rubble | L |
| and has his sheep fenced in everyone's meadows now | M |
| the smell of box and damp leaves drifts from the woods where a blackbird | N |
| is warning of nightfall Bayle has plans to demolish | O |
| the ancient walls of the lane and level it wide | P |
| so that trucks can go all the way down to where the lambs | Q |
| with perhaps two weeks to live are waiting for him at the wire | F |
| he hurries toward them while the sun sinks and the hour | F |
| turns chill as iron and in the oaks the first nightingales | Q |
| of the year kindle their unapproachable voices | Q |
William Stanley Merwin
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