Dawn In The Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIGJGKLMGJNGO GGEPEQRDDGSITUVWXYZA 2| It is the morning star arising slow | A |
| Out of yon hill s dark bulk as she were born | B |
| Of its desire for day then glides she forth | C |
| And into the dim sky there leaving still | D |
| A whiteness in her wake that whitens more | E |
| As she ascends till all the gloomy woods | F |
| Are touched along their multiformous lines | G |
| By a faint gleaming azure creeping on | H |
| A few thin stripes of fleecy clouds lie long | I |
| And motionless above the eastern steeps | G |
| Like threads of silver lace till suddenly | J |
| Out from the flushing centre to the ends | G |
| On either hand their lustrous layers become | K |
| Dipt all in crimson streaked with pink and gold | L |
| And then at last are edged as with a band | M |
| Of crystal all on fire Meanwhile the stars | G |
| Those golden children of eternity | J |
| Have all withdrawn within the Invisible | N |
| That skiey gleam and azure prevalence | G |
| Which first bespoke the dawn works out and down | O |
| Ev n to the grassy ground till all the trees | G |
| Clearly defined to their minutest sprays | G |
| Stand in unspeakable beauty Long before | E |
| The sun himself is seen off towards the west | P |
| A range of mighty summits more and more | E |
| Blaze each like a huge cresset in the keen | Q |
| Clear atmosphere As if the spirit of light | R |
| Advancing swiftly thence and eastward still | D |
| Kept kindling them in quick succession till | D |
| The universal company of cones | G |
| And peaks pyramidal stand burning all | S |
| With rosy fires like a wide ranging circ | I |
| Of mighty altars where the spirit of man | T |
| Can feel the presence of that greater soul | U |
| Which makes all nature and of which itself | V |
| Is but an effluence however far | W |
| Projected or detached by tract of time | X |
| Even as a sunbeam s fountain in the sun | Y |
| Whether it hit the earth or glance away | Z |
| Into infinitude shooting on for ever | A2 |
Charles Harpur
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