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 drifting | A |
| The river sang below | B |
| The dim Sierras far beyond uplifting | A |
| Their minarets of snow | B |
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| The roaring camp fire with rude humor painted | C |
| The ruddy tints of health | D |
| On haggard face and form that drooped and fainted | E |
| In the fierce race for wealth | D |
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| Till one arose and from his pack's scant treasure | F |
| A hoarded volume drew | G |
| And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure | F |
| To hear the tale anew | G |
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| And then while round them shadows gathered faster | F |
| And as the firelight fell | H |
| He read aloud the book wherein the Master | F |
| Had writ of Little Nell | H |
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| Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy for the reader | F |
| Was youngest of them all | I |
| But as he read from clustering pine and cedar | F |
| A silence seemed to fall | I |
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| The fir trees gathering closer in the shadows | J |
| Listened in every spray | K |
| While the whole camp with Nell on English meadows | J |
| Wandered and lost their way | K |
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| And so in mountain solitudes o'ertaken | G |
| As by some spell divine | G |
| Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken | G |
| From out the gusty pine | G |
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| Lost is that camp and wasted all its fire | F |
| And he who wrought that spell | H |
| Ah towering pine and stately Kentish spire | L |
| Ye have one tale to tell | H |
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| Lost is that camp but let its fragrant story | M |
| Blend with the breath that thrills | N |
| With hop vine's incense all the pensive glory | M |
| That fills the Kentish hills | N |
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| And on that grave where English oak and holly | M |
| And laurel wreaths entwine | G |
| Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly | M |
| This spray of Western pine | G |
Bret Harte
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