The Peasant Of The Alps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDCEEFGGHIIJKKJL LMLLMNNLOOL PPQRSQTTUVVULLWVVWMM XYCX| FROM THE NOVEL OF CELESTINA | A |
| WHERE cliffs arise by winter crown'd | B |
| And through dark groves of pine around | B |
| Down the deep chasms the snow fed torrents foam | C |
| Within some hollow shelter'd from the storms | D |
| The Peasant of the Alps his cottage forms | D |
| And builds his humble happy home | C |
| Unenvied is the rich domain | E |
| That far beneath him on the plain | E |
| Waves its wide harvests and its olive groves | F |
| More dear to him his hut with plantain thatch'd | G |
| Where long his unambitious heart attach'd | G |
| Finds all he wishes all he loves | H |
| There dwells the mistress of his heart | I |
| And Love who teaches every art | I |
| Has bid him dress the spot with fondest care | J |
| When borrowing from the vale its fertile soil | K |
| He climbs the precipice with patient toil | K |
| To plant her favourite flowerets there | J |
| With native shrubs a hardy race | L |
| There the green myrtle finds a place | L |
| And roses there the dewy leaves decline | M |
| While from the crags abrupt and tangled steeps | L |
| With bloom and fruit the Alpine berry peeps | L |
| And blushing mingles with the vine | M |
| His garden's simple produce stored | N |
| Prepared for him by hands adored | N |
| Is all the little luxury he knows | L |
| And by the same dear hands are softly spread | O |
| The Chamois' velvet spoil that forms the bed | O |
| Where in her arms he finds repose | L |
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| But absent from the calm abode | P |
| Dark thunder gathers round his road | P |
| Wild raves the wind the arrowy lightnings flash | Q |
| Returning quick the murmuring rocks among | R |
| His faint heart trembling as he winds along | S |
| Alarm'd he listens to the crash | Q |
| Of rifted ice Oh man of woe | T |
| O'er his dear cot a mass of snow | T |
| By the storm sever'd from the cliff above | U |
| Has fallen and buried in its marble breast | V |
| All that for him lost wretch the world possest | V |
| His home his happiness his love | U |
| Aghast the heart struck mourner stands | L |
| Glazed are his eyes convulsed his hands | L |
| O'erwhelming anguish checks his labouring breath | W |
| Crush'd by despair's intolerable weight | V |
| Frantic he seeks the mountain's giddiest height | V |
| And headlong seeks relief in death | W |
| A fate too similar is mine | M |
| But I in lingering pain repine | M |
| And still my lost felicity deplore | X |
| Cold cold to me is that dear breast become | Y |
| Where this poor heart had fondly fix'd its home | C |
| And love and happiness are mine no more | X |
Charlotte Smith
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