Evening On The Potomac. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC ACBDDEE FGGH IHGJ KLMLKK NOPO NJPJ| The fervid breath of our flushed Southern May | A |
| Is sweet upon the city's throat and lips | B |
| As a lover's whose tired arm slips | B |
| Listlessly over the shoulder of a queen | C |
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| Far away | A |
| The river melts in the unseen | C |
| Oh beautiful Girl City how she dips | B |
| Her feet in the stream | D |
| With a touch that is half a kiss and half a dream | D |
| Her face is very fair | E |
| With flowers for smiles and sunlight in her hair | E |
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| My westland flower town how serene she is | F |
| Here on this hill from which I look at her | G |
| All is still as if a worshipper | G |
| Left at some shrine his offering | H |
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| Soft winds kiss | I |
| My cheek with a slow lingering | H |
| A luring whisper where the laurels stir | G |
| Wiles my heart back to woodland ward again | J |
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| But lo | K |
| Across the sky the sunset couriers run | L |
| And I remain | M |
| To watch the imperial pageant of the Sun | L |
| Mock me an impotent Cortez here below | K |
| With splendors of its vaster Mexico | K |
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| O Eldorado of the templed clouds | N |
| O golden city of the western sky | O |
| Not like the Spaniard would I storm thy gates | P |
| Not like the babe stretch chubby hands and cry | O |
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| To have thee for a toy but far from crowds | N |
| Like my Faun brother in the ferny glen | J |
| Peer from the wood's edge while thy glory waits | P |
| And in the darkening thickets plunge again | J |
Bliss Carman (william)
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