Vickery's Mountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ STST UVUW AXAX GYGY JZA2Z EDCDBlue 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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