Bret Harte (francis)

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Dickens In Camp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG FHFH FIFI JKJK GGGG FHLH MNMN MGMG

Above the pines the moon was slowly driftingA
The river sang belowB
The dim Sierras far beyond upliftingA
Their minarets of snowB
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The roaring camp fire with rude humor paintedC
The ruddy tints of healthD
On haggard face and form that drooped and faintedE
In the fierce race for wealthD
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Till one arose and from his pack's scant treasureF
A hoarded volume drewG
And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisureF
To hear the tale anewG
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And then while round them shadows gathered fasterF
And as the firelight fellH
He read aloud the book wherein the MasterF
Had writ of Little NellH
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Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy for the readerF
Was youngest of them allI
But as he read from clustering pine and cedarF
A silence seemed to fallI
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The fir trees gathering closer in the shadowsJ
Listened in every sprayK
While the whole camp with Nell on English meadowsJ
Wandered and lost their wayK
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And so in mountain solitudes o'ertakenG
As by some spell divineG
Their cares dropped from them like the needles shakenG
From out the gusty pineG
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Lost is that camp and wasted all its fireF
And he who wrought that spellH
Ah towering pine and stately Kentish spireL
Ye have one tale to tellH
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Lost is that camp but let its fragrant storyM
Blend with the breath that thrillsN
With hop vine's incense all the pensive gloryM
That fills the Kentish hillsN
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And on that grave where English oak and hollyM
And laurel wreaths entwineG
Deem it not all a too presumptuous follyM
This spray of Western pineG

Bret Harte (francis)



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