Loon Point Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB AADA AAEA FAAA CAFA GHAH AIJI KLKL AAAA| Softly the water ripples | A |
| Against the canoe's curving side | B |
| Softly the birch trees rustle | C |
| Flinging over us branches wide | B |
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| Softly the moon glints and glistens | A |
| As the water takes and leaves | A |
| Like golden ears of corn | D |
| Which fall from loose bound sheaves | A |
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| Or like the snow white petals | A |
| Which drop from an overblown rose | A |
| When Summer ripens to Autumn | E |
| And the freighted year must close | A |
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| From the shore come the scents of a garden | F |
| And between a gap in the trees | A |
| A proud white statue glimmers | A |
| In cold disdainful ease | A |
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| The child of a southern people | C |
| The thought of an alien race | A |
| What does she in this pale northern garden | F |
| How reconcile it with her grace | A |
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| But the moon in her wayward beauty | G |
| Is ever and always the same | H |
| As lovely as when upon Latmos | A |
| She watched till Endymion came | H |
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| Through the water the moon writes her legends | A |
| In light on the smooth wet sand | I |
| They endure for a moment and vanish | J |
| And no one may understand | I |
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| All round us the secret of Nature | K |
| Is telling itself to our sight | L |
| We may guess at her meaning but never | K |
| Can know the full mystery of night | L |
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| But her power of enchantment is on us | A |
| We bow to the spell which she weaves | A |
| Made up of the murmur of waves | A |
| And the manifold whisper of leaves | A |
Amy Lowell
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