River-canyon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCB A DEE A FGG HIH BB GEG BJJ BBG G BGB G KLM| I | A |
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| Moss cup oaks broadly sprawled | B |
| Clench the path with sapling laurels | C |
| Intervalled | B |
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| II | A |
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| Ledge th inned waters | D |
| Falling divide and ravel | E |
| Over ferns and cress and gravel | E |
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| III | A |
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| Arbors of the wild grape | F |
| Climb from alder tops | G |
| To the cliff grown copse | G |
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| IV | - |
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| Columbine and Indian pink | H |
| Light the vine fringed pool | I |
| Where the foxes drink | H |
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| V | - |
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| High above | - |
| In their azure walled estate | B |
| Shrills the red hawk to his mate | B |
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| VI | - |
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| Far down the gorge steepens | G |
| Where inch by centuried inch the channel | E |
| Deepens | G |
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| VII | - |
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| By the grape's long root | B |
| We clamber from the last ledge | J |
| To the river's edge | J |
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| VIII | - |
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| With bronze and silver stippled | B |
| Runs the shallow rippled | B |
| River over stones | G |
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| IX | G |
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| Pebbles and driftwood | B |
| High lodged amid the willows | G |
| Mark the winter widened flood | B |
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| X | G |
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| Ouzels dart swiftly gone | K |
| Past the heron standing | L |
| Stirless and alone | M |
Clark Ashton Smith
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