The Face In The Stream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD EE FF GH IJ KK FF LL MM NN OO FF PP QQ RR EE ST RR U VV WW RR XX YY YY DD CC ZZ YY YY DD FF LL RA2 B2B2 YY C2C2 D2D2 E2F2 EE DD ZZ G2G2 RRThe sunburnt face in the willow shade | A |
To the face in the water mirror said | B |
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O deep mysterious face in the stream | C |
Art thou myself or am I thy dream | C |
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And the face deep down in the water's side | D |
To the face in the upper air replied | D |
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I am thy dream them poor worn face | E |
And this is thy heart's abiding place | E |
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Too much in the world come back and be | F |
Once more my dream fellow with me | F |
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In the far off untarnished years | G |
Before thy furrows were washed with tears | H |
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Or ever thy serious creature eyes | I |
Were aged with a mist of memories | J |
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Hast thou forgotten the long ago | K |
In the garden where I used to flow | K |
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Among the hills with the maple tree | F |
And the roses blowing over me | F |
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I who am now but a wraith of this river | L |
Forsaken of thee forever and ever | L |
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Who then was thine image fair forecast | M |
In the heart of the water rimpling past | M |
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Out in the wide of the summer zone | N |
I lulled and allured thee apart and alone | N |
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The azure gleam and the golden croon | O |
And the grass with the flaky roses strewn | O |
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There you would lie and lean above me | F |
The more you lingered the more to love me | F |
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Till I became as the year grew old | P |
Thy fairest day dream's fashion and mould | P |
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Deep in the water twilight there | Q |
Smiling elusive wonderful fair | Q |
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The beautiful visage of thy clear soul | R |
Set in eternity's limpid shoal | R |
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Thy spirit's countenance the trace | E |
Of dawning God in the human face | E |
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And when yellow leaves came down | S |
Through the silent mornings one by one | T |
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To the frosty meadow as they fell | R |
Thy pondering heart said All is well | R |
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Aye all is best for I stake my life | U |
Beyond the boundaries of strife ' | - |
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And then thy feet returned no more | V |
While years went over the garden floor | V |
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With frost and maple with rose and dew | W |
In the world thy river wandered through | W |
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Came never again to revive and recall | R |
Thy youth from its water burial | R |
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But now thy face is battle dark | X |
The strife of the world has graven a mark | X |
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About the lips that are no more mine | Y |
Too sweet to forget too strong to repine | Y |
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With the ends of the earth for thy garden now | Y |
What solace and what reward hast thou | Y |
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Then he of the earth's sun traversed side | D |
To him of the under world replied | D |
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O glad mysterious face in the stream | C |
My lost illusion my summer dream | C |
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Thou fairer self of a fonder time | Z |
A far imperishable clime | Z |
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For thy dear sake I have fared alone | Y |
And fronted failure and housed with none | Y |
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What youth was that when the world was green | Y |
In the lovely mythus Greek and clean | Y |
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Was doomed with his flowery kin to bide | D |
A blown white star by the river side | D |
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And no more follow the sun foot free | F |
Too long enamoured of one like thee | F |
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Shall God who abides in the patient flower | L |
The painted dust sustained by his power | L |
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Refuse to the wing of the dragonfly | R |
His sanction over the open sky | A2 |
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A frail detached and wandering thing | B2 |
Torn loose from the blossomy life of spring | B2 |
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And this is man the myriad one | Y |
Dust's flower and time's ephemeron | Y |
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And I who have followed the wander list | C2 |
For a glimpse of beauty a wraith in the mist | C2 |
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Shall be spilt at last and return to peace | D2 |
As dust which the hands of the wind release | D2 |
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This is my solace and my reward | E2 |
Who have drained life's dregs from a broken shard | F2 |
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Wise and grave was the water face | E |
A youth grown man in a little space | E |
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While the wayworn face by the river side | D |
Grew gentler lipped and shadowy eyed | D |
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For he heard like a sea horn summoning him | Z |
That sound from the world's end vast and dim | Z |
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Where the river went wandering out so far | G2 |
Through a gate in the mountain left ajar | G2 |
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The sea birds love and the land birds flee | R |
The large bleak voice of the burly sea | R |
Bliss Carman
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