Mist And Frost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBAAB DDBDDB CCEBBE EEBFFB AABBBB BBGDDG BBHIIJ BBCDDC EEBDDB DDDEED AADDDD EEFDDF CCDAADVeil like and beautiful | A |
Gathered the dutiful | A |
Mist in the night | B |
True to the messaging | C |
Dreamful and presaging | C |
Vapour and light | B |
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Ghostly and chill it is | D |
Pallid and still it is | D |
Sudden uprist | B |
What is there tragical | A |
Moving or magical | A |
Hid in the mist | B |
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Millions of essences | D |
Fairy like presences | D |
Formless as yet | B |
Light riven spangles | D |
Crystalline tangles | D |
Floating unset | B |
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Frost will come shepherding | C |
Nowise enjeoparding | C |
Frondage or flower | E |
Just a degree of it | B |
Nought can we see of it | B |
Only its power | E |
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Earth like a Swimmer | E |
Plunged into the dimmer | E |
Wave of the night | B |
Now is uprisen | F |
An Elysian vision | F |
Of spray and of light | B |
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'Tis the intangible | A |
Delicate frangible | A |
Secret of mist | B |
Breathing may banish it | B |
Thought may evanish it | B |
Ponder and whist | B |
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Passionless purity | B |
Calmness in surety | B |
Dwells everywhere | G |
A winnowed whiteness | D |
A lunar lightness | D |
Glows in the air | G |
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But in the heart of it | B |
Every least part of it | B |
Blooms with the charm | H |
Star shape and frondage | I |
Broken from bondage | I |
Forged into form | J |
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Crystals encrusted | B |
Diamonds dusted | B |
Line everything | C |
Tiny the stencillings | D |
Are as the pencillings | D |
On a moth's wing | C |
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And O what a wonder | E |
No farther asunder | E |
Than atoms are laid | B |
The arches and angles | D |
Of star froth and spangles | D |
Cast their own shade | B |
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Out from the chalices | D |
The pigmy palaces | D |
Where the tint hides | D |
Opal and sapphire | E |
Half pearl and half fire | E |
The colour slides | D |
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Till the frail miracle | A |
Rapturous lyrical | A |
Flushes and glows | D |
With a wraith of florescence | D |
That tempers or lessens | D |
The light of the snows | D |
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Held all aquiver | E |
But now with a shiver | E |
The power of the sun | F |
Dissolves the laces | D |
Of the tender mazes | D |
All is undone | F |
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But the old Earth brooding | C |
All wisdom including | C |
Affirms and assures | D |
That above the material | A |
Triumphal imperial | A |
Beauty endures | D |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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