Hillcrest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHI JKJK AEAE LMLM AFAF NOPO QRQR ESET AUAU VEVE UEUE| To Mrs Edward MacDowell | A |
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| No sound of any storm that shakes | B |
| Old island walls with older seas | C |
| Comes here where now September makes | B |
| An island in a sea of trees | C |
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| Between the sunlight and the shade | D |
| A man may learn till he forgets | E |
| The roaring of a world remade | D |
| And all his ruins and regrets | E |
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| And if he still remembers here | F |
| Poor fights he may have won or lost | G |
| If he be ridden with the fear | H |
| Of what some other fight may cost | I |
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| If eager to confuse too soon | J |
| What he has known with what may be | K |
| He reads a planet out of tune | J |
| For cause of his jarred harmony | K |
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| If here he venture to unroll | A |
| His index of adagios | E |
| And he be given to console | A |
| Humanity with what he knows | E |
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| He may by contemplation learn | L |
| A little more than what he knew | M |
| And even see great oaks return | L |
| To acorns out of which they grew | M |
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| He may if he but listen well | A |
| Through twilight and the silence here | F |
| Be told what there are none may tell | A |
| To vanity's impatient ear | F |
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| And he may never dare again | N |
| Say what awaits him or be sure | O |
| What sunlit labyrinth of pain | P |
| He may not enter and endure | O |
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| Who knows to day from yesterday | Q |
| May learn to count no thing too strange | R |
| Love builds of what Time takes away | Q |
| Till Death itself is less than Change | R |
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| Who sees enough in his duress | E |
| May go as far as dreams have gone | S |
| Who sees a little may do less | E |
| Than many who are blind have done | T |
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| Who sees unchastened here the soul | A |
| Triumphant has no other sight | U |
| Than has a child who sees the whole | A |
| World radiant with his own delight | U |
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| Far journeys and hard wandering | V |
| Await him in whose crude surmise | E |
| Peace like a mask hides everything | V |
| That is and has been from his eyes | E |
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| And all his wisdom is unfound | U |
| Or like a web that error weaves | E |
| On airy looms that have a sound | U |
| No louder now than falling leaves | E |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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