Fin de Fête

Charlotte Mary Mew 1869 (Bloomsbury, London) – 1928 (London)



Sweetheart, for such a day
     One mustn't grudge the score;
Here, then, it's all to pay,
     It's Good-night at the door.
 
Good-night and good dreams to you,—
     Do you remember the picture-book thieves
Who left two children sleeping in a wood the long night through,
     And how the birds came down and covered them with leaves?
 
So you and I should have slept,—But now,
     Oh, what a lonely head!
With just the shadow of a waving bough
     In the moonlight over your bed.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 483
Words 87
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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