On A Mountain Top Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| On this high altar fringed with ferns | A |
| That darken against the sky | B |
| The dawn in lonely beauty burns | A |
| And all our evils die | B |
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| The struggling sea that roared below | C |
| Is quieter than the dew | D |
| Quieter than the clouds that flow | C |
| Across the stainless blue | D |
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| On this bare crest the angels kneel | E |
| And breathe the sweets that rise | F |
| From flowers too little to reveal | E |
| Their beauty to our eyes | F |
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| I have seen Edens on the earth | G |
| With queenly blooms arrayed | H |
| But here the fairest come to birth | G |
| The smallest flowers He made | H |
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| O high above the sounding pine | I |
| And richer sweeter far | J |
| The wild thyme wakes The celandine | I |
| Looks at the morning star | J |
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| They may not see the heavens unfold | K |
| They breathe no out worn prayer | L |
| But on a mountain as of old | K |
| His glory fills the air | L |
Alfred Noyes
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