Spring On Mattagmi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CECEFGFH GIGIFFFF FJFJKLKL BMBMNONO JAJAPHPH GHGHQRQR GSGSJGJG FFFFGTGT JUJUQVQV CQCQJWJW JGJGGLGL CGCGGSGS JJJJQGQG GLGLFXFX| Far in the east the rain clouds sweep and harry | A |
| Down the long haggard hills formless and low | B |
| Far in the west the shell tints meet and marry | A |
| Piled gray and tender blue and roseate snow | B |
| East like a fiend the bolt breasted streaming | C |
| Storm strikes the world with lightning and with hail | D |
| West like the thought of a seraph that is dreaming | C |
| Venus leads the young moon down the vale | D |
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| Through the lake furrow between the gloom and bright'ning | C |
| Firm runs our long canoe with a whistling rush | E |
| While Pot n the wise and the cunning Silver Lightning | C |
| Break with their slender blades the long clear hush | E |
| Soon shall I pitch my tent amid the birches | F |
| Wise Pot n shall gather boughs of balsam fir | G |
| While for bark and dry wood Silver Lightning searches | F |
| Soon the smoke shall hang and lapse in the moist air | H |
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| Soon shall I sleep if I may not remember | G |
| One who lives far away where the storm cloud went | I |
| May it part and starshine burn in many a quiet ember | G |
| Over her towered city crowned with large content | I |
| Dear God let me sleep here where deep peace is | F |
| Let me own a dreamless sleep once for all the years | F |
| Let me know a quiet mind and what heart ease is | F |
| Lost to light and life and hope to longing and to tears | F |
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| Here in the solitude less her memory presses | F |
| Yet I see her lingering where the birches shine | J |
| All the dark cedars are sleep laden like her tresses | F |
| The gold moted wood pools pellucid as her eyen | J |
| Memories and ghost forms of the days departed | K |
| People all the forest lone in the dead of night | L |
| While Pot n and Silver Lightning sleep the happy hearted | K |
| Troop they from their fastnesses upon my sight | L |
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| Once when the tide came straining from the Lido | B |
| In a sea of flame our gondola flickered like a sword | M |
| Venice lay abroad builded like beauty's credo | B |
| Smouldering like a gorget on the breast of the Lord | M |
| Did she mourn for fame foredoomed or passion shattered | N |
| That with a sudden impulse she gathered at my side | O |
| But when I spoke the ancient fates were flattered | N |
| Chill there crept between us the imperceptible tide | O |
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| Once I well remember in her twilight garden | J |
| She pulled a half blown rose I thought it meant for me | A |
| But poising in the act and with half a sigh for pardon | J |
| She hid it in her bosom where none may dare to see | A |
| Had she a subtle meaning would to God I knew it | P |
| Where'er I am I always feel the rose leaves nestling there | H |
| If I might know her mind and the thought which then flashed through it | P |
| My soul might look to heaven not commissioned to despair | H |
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| Though she denied at parting the gift that I besought her | G |
| Just a bit of ribbon or a strand of her hair | H |
| Though she would not keep the token that I brought her | G |
| Proud she stood and calm and marvellously fair | H |
| Yet I saw her spirit truth cannot dissemble | Q |
| Saw her pure as gold staunch and keen and brave | R |
| For she knows my worth and her heart was all atremble | Q |
| Lest her will should weaken and make her heart a slave | R |
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| If she could be here where all the world is eager | G |
| For dear love with the primal Eden sway | S |
| Where the blood is fire and no pulse is thin or meagre | G |
| All the heart of all the world beats one way | S |
| There is the land of fraud and fame and fashion | J |
| Joy is but a gaud and withers in an hour | G |
| Here is the land of quintessential passion | J |
| Where in a wild throb Spring wells up with power | G |
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| She would hear the partridge drumming in the distance | F |
| Rolling out his mimic thunder in the sultry noons | F |
| Hear beyond the silver reach in ringing wild persistence | F |
| Reel remote the ululating laughter of the loons | F |
| See the shy moose fawn nestling by its mother | G |
| In a cool marsh pool where the sedges meet | T |
| Rest by a moss mound where the twin flowers smother | G |
| With a drowse of orient perfume drenched in light and heat | T |
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| She would see the dawn rise behind the smoky mountain | J |
| In a jet of colour curving up to break | U |
| While like spray from the iridescent fountain | J |
| Opal fires weave over all the oval of the lake | U |
| She would see like fireflies the stars alight and spangle | Q |
| All the heaven meadows thick with growing dusk | V |
| Feel the gipsy airs that gather up and tangle | Q |
| The woodsy odours in a maze of myrrh and musk | V |
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| There in the forest all the birds are nesting | C |
| Tells the hermit thrush the song he cannot tell | Q |
| While the white throat sparrow never resting | C |
| Even in the deepest night rings his crystal bell | Q |
| O she would love me then with a wild elation | J |
| Then she must love me and leave her lonely state | W |
| Give me love yet keep her soul's imperial reservation | J |
| Large as her deep nature and fathomless as fate | W |
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| Then if she would lie beside me in the even | J |
| On my deep couch heaped of balsam fir | G |
| Fragrant with sleep as nothing under heaven | J |
| Let the past and future mingle in one blur | G |
| While all the stars were watchful and thereunder | G |
| Earth breathed not but took their silent light | L |
| All life withdrew and wrapt in a wild wonder | G |
| Peace fell tranquil on the odorous night | L |
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| She would let me steal not consenting or denying | C |
| One strong arm beneath her dusky hair | G |
| She would let me bare not resisting or complying | C |
| One sweet breast so sweet and firm and fair | G |
| Then with the quick sob of passion's shy endeavour | G |
| She would gather close and shudder and swoon away | S |
| She would be mine for ever and for ever | G |
| Mine for all time and beyond the judgment day | S |
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| Vain is the dream and deep with all derision | J |
| Fate is stern and hard fair and false and vain | J |
| But what would life be worth without the vision | J |
| Dark with sordid passion pale with wringing pain | J |
| What I dream is mine mine beyond all cavil | Q |
| Pure and fair and sweet and mine for evermore | G |
| And when I will my life I may unravel | Q |
| And find my passion dream deep at the red core | G |
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| Venus sinks first lost in ruby splendour | G |
| Stars like wood daffodils grow golden in the night | L |
| Far far above in a space entranced and tender | G |
| Floats the growing moon pale with virgin light | L |
| Vaster than the world or life or death my trust is | F |
| Based in the unseen and towering far above | X |
| Hold me O Law that deeper lies than Justice | F |
| Guide me O Light that stronger burns than Love | X |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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