The Silvery San Juan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAAFFGGHH IIJJFFKKAAHHLLFFAA| Wherever I wander my spirit still dwells | A |
| In the silvery San Juan with its streamlet and dells | A |
| Whose mountainous summits so rugged and high | B |
| With their pinnacles pierce the ethereal sky | B |
| Where the daisy the rose and the sweet columbine | C |
| Blend their colors with those of the sober hued pine | C |
| Where the ceaseless erosions of measureless time | D |
| Have chiseled the grotto and canon sublime | D |
| Have sculptured the cliff and the stern mountain wall | E |
| Have formed the bold turret impressive and tall | E |
| Have cut the deep gorge with its wonderful caves | A |
| Sepulchral and gloomy whose vast architraves | A |
| Support the stalactites both pendant and white | F |
| Which with the stalagmites beneath them unite | F |
| Where nestles a valley sequestered and grand | G |
| Worn out of the rock by the same tireless hand | G |
| Surrounded by mountains majestic and gray | H |
| Which smile from their heights on the Town of Ouray | H |
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| Wherever I wander my ears hear the sound | I |
| Of thy waters which plunge with a turbulent bound | I |
| O'er the precipice seething and laden with foam | J |
| My ears hear their music wherever I roam | J |
| Where the cataract's rhapsody joyous and light | F |
| Enchants in the morning and soothes in the night | F |
| Where blend the loud thunders sonorous and deep | K |
| With the sobs of the rain as the black heavens weep | K |
| Where the whispering zephyr and murmuring breeze | A |
| Unite with the soft listless sigh of the trees | A |
| And where to the fancy the voices of air | H |
| Wail in tones of distress or in shrieks of despair | H |
| Where mourneth the night wind with desolate breath | L |
| In accents suggestive of sorrow and death | L |
| As falls from the heavens so fleecy and light | F |
| The winter's immaculate mantle of white | F |
| Wherever I wander these sounds greet my ears | A |
| And the silvery San Juan to my fancy appears | A |
Alfred Castner King
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