Vickery's Mountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ STST UVUW AXAX GYGY JZA2Z EDCD| Blue in the west the mountain stands | A |
| And through the long twilight | B |
| Vickery sits with folded hands | A |
| And Vickery's eyes are bright | B |
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| Bright for he knows what no man else | C |
| On earth as yet may know | D |
| There's a golden word that he never tells | E |
| And a gift that he will not show | D |
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| He dreams of honor and wealth and fame | F |
| He smiles and well he may | G |
| For to Vickery once a sick man came | F |
| Who did not go away | G |
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| The day before the day to be | H |
| Vickery said the guest | I |
| You know as you live what's left of me | H |
| And you shall know the rest | I |
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| You know as you live that I have come | J |
| To this we call the end | K |
| No doubt you have found me troublesome | J |
| But you've also found a friend | K |
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| For we shall give and you shall take | L |
| The gold that is in view | M |
| The mountain there and I shall make | L |
| A golden man of you | M |
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| And you shall leave a friend behind | N |
| Who neither frets nor feels | O |
| And you shall move among your kind | N |
| With hundreds at your heels | O |
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| Now this that I have written here | P |
| Tells all that need be told | Q |
| So Vickery take the way that's clear | R |
| And be a man of gold | Q |
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| Vickery turned his eyes again | S |
| To the far mountain side | T |
| And wept a tear for worthy men | S |
| Defeated and defied | T |
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| Since then a crafty score of years | U |
| Have come and they have gone | V |
| But Vickery counts no lost arrears | U |
| He lingers and lives on | W |
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| Blue in the west the mountain stands | A |
| Familiar as a face | X |
| Blue but Vickery knows what sands | A |
| Are golden at its base | X |
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| He dreams and lives upon the day | G |
| When he shall walk with kings | Y |
| Vickery smiles and well he may | G |
| The life caged linnet sings | Y |
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| Vickery thinks the time will come | J |
| To go for what is his | Z |
| But hovering unseen hands at home | A2 |
| Will hold him where he is | Z |
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| There's a golden word that he never tells | E |
| And a gift that he will not show | D |
| All to be given to some one else | C |
| And Vickery not to know | D |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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