The Heritage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCDD DEDEFFFE GGHHFIFIJKLKCMCM FNFNFOFFOOKKK| ON summer evenings when the full moon shines | A |
| Serene and fair | B |
| High in the crystal air | B |
| On hillsides deep in birches and in pines | A |
| Then in all hearts there stirs a hidden fire | C |
| Of hope or memory | D |
| Some their beloved dead more yearningly desire | C |
| Some dream of loves to be | D |
| Some weep their swift and sweet mortality | D |
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| But I remember only | D |
| Long centuries ago | E |
| A glen more dark and lonely | D |
| Than these which now I know | E |
| The noise of waters flowing | F |
| And faint salt breezes blowing | F |
| Ivy and myrtle growing | F |
| As here they do not grow | E |
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| There when the moon was at full we would come we would come | G |
| To the shrilling of pipes and the terrible tone of the drum | G |
| Rolling long rolling loud as the voice that presages the rain | H |
| We would come to the cavern profound to the holy domain | H |
| Then in the moonlight entrancing | F |
| Figures moved agile and fleet | I |
| Then there was dancing ay dancing | F |
| Leaping and stamping of feet | I |
| Dancers that drifted and darted | J |
| Light as a leaf in the breeze | K |
| Circles that met and that parted | L |
| While the stars danced through the trees | K |
| Quickening the drums beat the measure | C |
| All the night long on the hill | M |
| Such was the Thunderer's pleasure | C |
| This I remember me still | M |
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| O placid northern moon on this calm lake | F |
| Beaming demure and tame | N |
| How can I take | F |
| Aught of delight in thy pale flame | N |
| I ache | F |
| For a communion I have known | O |
| Long centuries ago | F |
| Which nevermore the world will seek or know | F |
| For a belief outgrown | O |
| Yet how much more my own | O |
| Than creeds that hold me quiet on my knees | K |
| For rites that brought delights like these | K |
| And Gods I once knew how to please | K |
Alice Duer Miller
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