St. Ame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC DEDEEFF GHGHHII JKJKKLM NONOOPP QRQRRQQ ESESSQQ TUTUUVV| A SUNNY glade below the bridge | A |
| Clear shadows branching through a stream | B |
| A hillock purple to the ridge | A |
| With velvet thyme and the far gleam | B |
| Of white clouds in a dream | B |
| Floating above the dusky lines | C |
| Of silent mountains black with pines | C |
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| An idle hour to lose away | D |
| To question not nor muse nor know | E |
| The ripples ripple where they may | D |
| From brown into the amber glow | E |
| The moments drift and go | E |
| And what is life and toil and fret | F |
| We only breathe and we forget | F |
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| So in their summer fields might rest | G |
| Disprisoned shades that henceforth share | H |
| The careless strength of souls possessed | G |
| By but the moment that is there | H |
| The strength which children wear | H |
| Might so be stilled from thought or speech | I |
| Passed into calm beyond their reach | I |
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| And lo the dragon fly's locked wings | J |
| Upon the leaf my breath could stir | K |
| And on my sleeve undoubting springs | J |
| A merry minded grasshopper | K |
| And see behind that fir | K |
| A rat across our brook has come | L |
| And rustles past us to his home | M |
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| And the sweet air is hushed with sound | N |
| More tranceful than low lullabies | O |
| The plashings of the waters drowned | N |
| In babble of small insect cries | O |
| And surge of leafy sighs | O |
| We hear not heed enough for us | P |
| Resting to feel that rest is thus | P |
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| Not now Oh vacant hour long past | Q |
| Wherefore to day live back in thee | R |
| Ill hour that grew no growth to last | Q |
| Flower without seed unfruitful tree | R |
| Hast thou still right to be | R |
| Fade out forgotten ghost of nought | Q |
| What worth or wisdom hast thou brought | Q |
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| Nay seedless fruitless hour not so | E |
| Fade not but hide from sterner looks | S |
| We have a secret we two know | E |
| The secret of the woods the brooks | S |
| Of wild flowers in their nooks | S |
| Of all glad growing things' delight | Q |
| That live and never long for night | Q |
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| A secret hidden from thought and will | T |
| And only given to those who cease | U |
| From toil and pondering and are still | T |
| The secret of that soulless peace | U |
| The soul's joy and release | U |
| To sit and see the sun and smile | V |
| Only because we live the while | V |
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