Rapids At Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCADDAAEAFG AA AAGHGAAAAAGACA AAIAAAA| Here at the roots of the mountains | A |
| Between the sombre legions of cedars and tamaracks | A |
| The rapids charge the ravine | B |
| A little light cast by foam under starlight | C |
| Wavers about the shimmering stems of the birches | A |
| Here rise up the clangorous sounds of battle | D |
| Immense and mournful | D |
| Far above curves the great dome of darkness | A |
| Drawn with the limitless lines of the stars and the planets | A |
| Deep at the core of the tumult | E |
| Deeper than all the voices that cry at the surface | A |
| Dwells one fathomless sound | F |
| Under the hiss and cry the stroke and the plangent clamour | G |
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| O human heart that sleeps | A |
| Wild with rushing dreams and deep with sadness | A |
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| The abysmal roar drops into almost silence | A |
| While over its sleep play in various cadence | A |
| Innumerous voices crashing in laughter | G |
| Then rising calm overwhelming | H |
| Slow in power | G |
| Rising supreme in utterance | A |
| It sways and reconquers and floods all the spaces of silence | A |
| One voice deep with the sadness | A |
| That dwells at the core of all things | A |
| There by a nest in the glimmering birches | A |
| Speaks a thrush as if startled from slumber | G |
| Dreaming of Southern ricefields | A |
| The moted glow of the amber sunlight | C |
| Where the long ripple roves among the reeds | A |
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| Above curves the great dome of darkness | A |
| Scored with the limitless lines of the stars and the planets | A |
| Like the strong palm of God | I |
| Veined with the ancient laws | A |
| Holding a human heart that sleeps | A |
| Wild with rushing dreams and deep with the sadness | A |
| That dwells at the core of all things | A |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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