The Mountain Heart's-ease Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHID JKJK ALAL CMCM| By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting | A |
| By furrowed glade and dell | B |
| To feverish men thy calm sweet face uplifting | A |
| Thou stayest them to tell | B |
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| The delicate thought that cannot find expression | C |
| For ruder speech too fair | D |
| That like thy petals trembles in possession | C |
| And scatters on the air | D |
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| The miner pauses in his rugged labor | E |
| And leaning on his spade | F |
| Laughingly calls unto his comrade neighbor | E |
| To see thy charms displayed | F |
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| But in his eyes a mist unwonted rises | G |
| And for a moment clear | H |
| Some sweet home face his foolish thought surprises | I |
| And passes in a tear | D |
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| Some boyish vision of his Eastern village | J |
| Of uneventful toil | K |
| Where golden harvests followed quiet tillage | J |
| Above a peaceful soil | K |
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| One moment only for the pick uplifting | A |
| Through root and fibre cleaves | L |
| And on the muddy current slowly drifting | A |
| Are swept by bruised leaves | L |
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| And yet O poet in thy homely fashion | C |
| Thy work thou dost fulfill | M |
| For on the turbid current of his passion | C |
| Thy face is shining still | M |
Bret Harte
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